The Great Car Con Channel 4 26 Jan @ 2000hrs

The Great Car Con Channel 4 26 Jan @ 2000hrs

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5,705 posts

222 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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Spotted this in next week's listings:

''Diesel, once touted as the green fuel of the future, may not be as cheap or as clean as we thought. Dispatches looks at plans to charge those who drive diesel cars in polluted cities and asks why politicians encouraged the 'dash for diesel'."


Morningside

24,111 posts

230 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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Or... Oh fk we are losing massive revenue on fuel duty as everyone is switching. How can we claw it back?
I know, lets start a scare story.

anonymous-user

55 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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About time we got dirty diesels off the road!

nicanary

9,801 posts

147 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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I will use as an analogy an excerpt from one of Bill Bryson's works - you may well know it yourself.

He talks about his love of the New York Sunday Times, and the fact that it is a colossal item of newsprint. He says something along the lines of the fact that one edition uses the wood from 16 huge trees, but then adds "So what if my grandchildren don't have enough oxygen to breathe... f*ck 'em."

And that's how I feel about emissions/ozone depletion/treehuggers/carbon footprints/etc etc.

Diesels issue deadly gases or whatever- so?


MissChief

7,114 posts

169 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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nicanary said:
I will use as an analogy an excerpt from one of Bill Bryson's works - you may well know it yourself.

He talks about his love of the New York Sunday Times, and the fact that it is a colossal item of newsprint. He says something along the lines of the fact that one edition uses the wood from 16 huge trees, but then adds "So what if my grandchildren don't have enough oxygen to breathe... f*ck 'em."

And that's how I feel about emissions/ozone depletion/treehuggers/carbon footprints/etc etc.

Diesels issue deadly gases or whatever- so?
it's not the fact that they do as such, more the continual marketing message that because they emit low CO2 compared to a petrol engine everyone should buy one, conveniently glossing over the fact that in other ways they're more polluting.

hairyben

8,516 posts

184 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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Basically all the people (who've enjoyed pillorying america for the "short sightedness" of having cheap fuel when they've been more concerned about harmfull emissions in their cities) have now woken up to what we've been telling them for 20+ years about the fuel they've fiscally forced us to use and would like to inform us of our failings.