Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe EDINBURGH, Scotland, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- City officials in Edinburgh, Scotland, are reportedly considering a plan that would base parking permit prices on carbon dioxide emissions. City councilors from the Green Party put forward a motion for next week's full council meeting that calls for exploration of a plan that would charge lower prices to park smaller, more eco-friendly cars than to park gas-guzzling SUVs, The Scotsman reported Monday. Advertisement The city's political parties backed the plan in their May manifestos and are expected to pass the motion, the newspaper said. "The council, like all of us, has a responsibility to cut the level of CO2 emissions and this would be a relatively simple way of contributing to this," said Councilor Steve Burgess, the Green Party's environment spokesman for Edinburgh. "It is working elsewhere, such as in Woking (England), and there is no reason why it can't work in Edinburgh," he said in The Scotsman's report.
