They're blaming diesels for all this poor air quality and smog that lingers in cities. So how is it still such a massive problem in the US where only around 3% of vehicles on the road are actually diesel engined?
Something just doesn't ring true for me with the some of the outright scare stories surrounding diesel at the minute. It's almost as if someone, somewhere, has a vested interest. I just can't figure out what yet.
Call me paranoid, but history is littered with corporate greed overriding the health of a nation. If anyone researches the history of removing tetraethyl lead from petrol then they'll see that for many many years the motor industry put their own interests above everyone elses.
15 years ago we were told that in order to save the planet "clean" diesels were the future. Now we're being told that they got it wrong and that the not so green petrol is now the way forward.
Given how many people die from air pollution per year versus terrorism, you'd think there'd be a concerted effort to tackle that. Surely given similar amounts of funding EV technology would come to the fore and offer a real clean air alternative to fossil fuels?
For what it's worth I took delivery of a 190PS diesel on March 1 this year. I don't think you'll regret the 272 diesel one bit, and remember, any govt opting to hammer 50% of the driving public 3 years from a general election would potentially be committing political suicide!
How much extra CO² would be generated building new cars to replace all the diesels on the road also?
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