VW Gives up on diesel

[Fastdruid]

In the US.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/volkswagen-gives...

I wonder how long before they give up on it here?

[anonymous-user]

diesel is not a bad fuel, it can be made to run clean, but it is hard to do so. how do you think trucks will takes goods. trains use diesel, it will be at least another 50 years use.

[Dollyman1850]

The Great Carbon Con!!

The govt's have finally twigged that a Diesel gives off less CO2 than a petrol so have now started to look for another way to get tax revenue from vehicles….Exhaust systems, DPF's and other filtering technology can be made very efficient these days…Then consider that diesel yes on paper is more pollution's but much more efficient…..it all comes out of the same hole in the ground…Diesel is just tapped off at the refinery at a lower refined level… thereby making it even more efficient when considering its production!!!

Its all purely about the goats using the populous to raise coffers because they like to let the conglomerates off that they all sit on the boards of!!!

N.

[11jhw]

When the pollution caused by just 160 of the 6000 most inefficient ships in the world, equates to the same exhaust output and pollution of all the cars on the globe, they need to start there.

Same old story the car and driver are easy targets.

Makes one wonder how environmentally friendly VW's cargo ships are that deliver their hundred's of thousands of cars around the world.

[Fastdruid]

Ships don't park outside schools idling and drive through the centre of town.

[heebeegeetee]

Fastdruid said:

Ships don't park outside schools idling and drive through the centre of town.

Cold petrol engines start and idle outside schools and homes and cold petrol engines are off the scale for emissions.

[Fastdruid]

heebeegeetee said:

Fastdruid said:

Ships don't park outside schools idling and drive through the centre of town.

Cold petrol engines start and idle outside schools and homes and cold petrol engines are off the scale for emissions.

Indeed they do. Not of NOx however.

[pim]

I have seen harbour tugs using the cheapest filthy cheap tar fuel for their engines.The amount of crap they spew out and get away with.It is about time this is sorted.It is all about the money.

[oldoaktree]

I don't think it's the use of diesel it's where it's used that's there's a problem with.

[Willy Nilly]

pim said:

I have seen harbour tugs using the cheapest filthy cheap tar fuel for their engines.The amount of crap they spew out and get away with.It is about time this is sorted.It is all about the money.

I think, but am willing to be corrected, that ships have zones where they have to switch to diesel and it's only in the open ocean that they can run on that heavy oil.

[Gary C]

Willy Nilly said:

pim said:

I have seen harbour tugs using the cheapest filthy cheap tar fuel for their engines.The amount of crap they spew out and get away with.It is about time this is sorted.It is all about the money.

I think, but am willing to be corrected, that ships have zones where they have to switch to diesel and it's only in the open ocean that they can run on that heavy oil.

Lol, if you ever watched a ferry leave heysham harbour you can see the huge plumes of black smoke from their engines.

While 100 yards away our marine diesel based emergency generators that run for three hours every three months on test, have to run clean and to all sorts of emmission limits.

Ships seem to avoid emmission controls.