Report: Banning petrol cars by 2030 would add billions to GDP and create 32,000 jobs. The government should listen

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t isn’t hard to guess at the response of critics to this morning’s publication of a report finding that a 2030 ban on petrol, diesel and hybrid cars and vans would create 32,000 much-needed jobs and add a much-needed £4.2bn to GDP.

“Well they would say that,” or some variant is what we’ll likely hear.

Such a line is a cheap, easy and pathetically obvious ploy for those too blinkered to engage with the report’s conclusions, which is what I’m going to do.