The End of Diesels is here... FT article

[neil1jnr]

Apologies becuase I realise this topic has been covered numerous times but I don't know if this article has been posted before.

Just had a read of this:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/627c6812-7faf-11e4-adff-...

'The promotion of diesel cars was a mistake'

'Aim to progressively ban diesel cars'

Based on everything I've read (my knowledge on this subject is quite low), including this article, I think it would be a good thing if taxing cars based on CO2 emissions was scrapped and an alternative method put in place. Banning diesels does sound a bit ridiculous though but in my mind, if diesels really are a bigger 'killer', becuase they are a bigger contributor to poor air quality than petrol powered cars, then I am all for having more petrols on the road than diesels.

The advent of moderns turbo petrols matching the low end shove of diesels and much improved mpg over NA petrols from 10-15 years ago, in my mind does make the diesel cars quite a silly prospect. Bring on low tax for petrol and high tax on diesel

Discuss?

[neil1jnr]

Jimboka said:

£30 ved & 55+ mpg from my Diesel Superb
The headline is clearly nonsense as usual

Did you read the article? I don't get your point?

[neil1jnr]

toerag said:

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/11...

I wouldn't expect anything less, the car manufacturers would take a big hit, the amount of developement in diesel engines recently has been huge.

Does anybody know how many deaths are due to emissions from petrol cars? On a serious note, no matter how good diesels engines get, I am all open to alternatives to saving lives... how accurate is the information though in regard to deaths linked to diesel exhaust gases?