Paris car ban set to start after pollution hits high - Page 2

pdxtex · #21 Posted **Mar 19, 2014, 12:13 AM**

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New Brisavoine · #22 Posted **Mar 19, 2014, 12:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by Crawford

My sense has always been that France has slightly lower auto usage than Germany, UK and Italy, and maybe the same or a little higher than Spain, but that's just based on a hunch.

Number of motor vehicles per 1,000 inhabitants in 2010 (World Bank figures):
- USA: 797
- Italy: 679
- Spain: 593
- Japan: 591
- France: 580
- Germany: 572
- Poland: 537
- Netherlands: 527
- UK: 519
- Mexico: 275
- China: 58

Shawn · #23 Posted **Mar 19, 2014, 3:45 AM**

My parents bought a Peugeot 505 station wagon in 1983, when they were actually still sold in North America, precisely because they were under the notion that diesel fuel would be cheaper and more readily available than gasoline. I guess this was actually true in the late 70s and early 80s in the US. But I think they were on the tale-end of that trend, and my brother and I got ferried around in what sounded (and looked) like a M48 Patton tank sans the turret for the next decade.