Diesel vs Petrol

[mojobaby]

This is what I've always thought, Diesel is the bigger polluter, although its cheaper.
So pity all those people who have just bought a new car.

Mexico City – Mexico City has joined with Paris, Madrid and Athens in committing to eliminating diesel vehicles from their cities by 2025.

The agreement was announced at the C40 Mayors Summit in Mexico's capital late on Thursday. A statement said the commitment would reduce air pollution and related health issues in those cities, while also helping cities meet climate goals.

"It's a worldwide public health concern," Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Friday.

Removing diesel from Paris streets was a goal she set when she took office in 2014. She cited Tokyo as an example already well on its way.


It is a major reversal in France where more than 20 years ago the government had selected diesel as the future of urban mobility and supported it, Hidalgo said.

 

[Potty]

I wonder what's going to happen to all the buses in these cities, or all the trucks making deliveries?
Personally maybe they should ban the new car factories themselves seeing as they are making a huge contribution to pollution,
meanwhile giving incentives to people keeping their old cars on the road rather than the scrappage schemes that are going on .....

Meanwhile back in the real world you must be mad to drive in those cities anyway.

 

[Neil]

"CLIMATE CHANGE IS REVERSIBLE" ..... is a dangerous MYTH.

When asked for his views on global warming, William Colby, Director General of the C.I.A. remarked that it was "too late". That was 1975.

In 1997, hours after being elected as P.M., Anthony Blair boldly announced that U.K. Carbon emmissions would be reduced to pre-war levels by 2015. In spite of the standing ovation he received, Co2 produced by the British Isles has since risen 5% annually on average, up to the present day.

Although often associated with Greenpeace, the following proverb has been traced to a Native American tribe:

"When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will greedy industrial growthmeisters learn that dollar bills are inedible"

Didn't anyone in England or Wales think it was odd that daffodils appeared in great numbers at the roadside last January?

The Kyoto Protocol on the reduction of greenhouse gas emmissions was adopted in Japan on the 11th December 1997. The serious committment to cutting emmissions, shown by the worlds great and powerful, prevented the protocol being enforced until16th February 2005.
But Canada withdrew from what has affectionately become known as Kyoto, in 2012.
The USA have never ratified it!

Another nail, another coffin

It is every country's aim to increase something called "real gross domestic product", but that cannot be achieved without a proportional increase in energy consumption,

Another nail, another coffin