Diesel cars could be banished as Britain ordered to cut air pollution

according to the telegraph its time to hang up your diesil motors and find other options as some high court judge has ruled we have'nt met the eu anti pollution levels we sign'd up for. i,m not an eu or climate septic so discuss and convince me the merits of all this

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This country, and the politicians who run it are more likely to tax rather than ban. This could be the excuse they need for more cities adopting "Low Emissions Zones" as Boris has already done.

Can you tax 2nd hand chip fat?

Bobsticle said:

Can you tax 2nd hand chip fat?

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hi bobsticle i believe for your own personal use there's a litre limit before your ment to declare it and pay tax

We, the car buying public will not have any say in the matter. However, as most if not all car manufacturers produce diesel cars these days it will be up to them to tell the various greenies, EU idiocrats and the other stone age thinking yoghurt knitters where to stick their particulates.

Just another excuse for the Government to increase the amount of tax diesel vehicle owners have to cough up every year, simple come back if people complain is "get a more efficient vehicle". Luckily I own a petrol car that falls 2g/km below the maximum 226+g/km £400(maybe more now)bracket.

I'd guess that if they do punish diesel owners wallets now then in 10/15 years time they'd find something wrong with the hybrid and electric cars and tax them more severely.

The big increase in wood burning fires is probably another cause of particulates. In the 50's we had smog, when they banned coal fires it disappeared.
Blaming cars is just an excuse to tax, trucks are all diesel what are they proposing to do about them?

Datatek said:

The big increase in wood burning fires is probably another cause of particulates. In the 50's we had smog, when they banned coal fires it disappeared.
Blaming cars is just an excuse to tax, trucks are all diesel what are they proposing to do about them?

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Not really, people seem to enjoy removing factory exhaust systems

Thor1950 said:

Not really, people seem to enjoy removing factory exhaust systems

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What has removing factory exhaust systems got to do with it?
The **** still comes out of the end of the pipe even with a DPF.

disco924 said:

hi bobsticle i believe for your own personal use there's a litre limit before your ment to declare it and pay tax

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Im going to open the injectors a tad so I can just chop lard straight into the tank.

Its a hard life with a 1966 88. No tax and free chip oil. My nephew says Im all but ready for the zombie apocalypse.

Lucas pump will die

disco924 said:

according to the telegraph...

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I'm immediately skeptical- they're probably looking for another thing to blame on the EU as we come up to the election. Though at least it's not the daily mail...

It will be tough to do since
The majority of trucks are diesel
The majority of boats are diesel
Land Rover would probably go bankrupt considering the majority of what they sell are diesels
All Taxis are diesel
All Ambulances are diesel
All Fire Engines are diesel
Most Police cars are diesel
Garbage Trucks are diesel
Many buses are diesel
Most coaches are diesel
All airport machinery are diesel
The majority of generators (back up and personal) are diesel

Can't think of anymore! I know they are phasing out diesel buses in favour of hybrid and hydrogen but still. This mad idea they have had would cost the UK millions but then probably make a fair chunk on tax.

Our pollution is blown in on the wind from Europe (Brussels actually).

The issue isn't the engines themselves as much as the huge switch to diesel from Petrol that has taken place in the past 20 years.

Peter

The new rules on emmisions are hurting the railway industry as well.

Cannot build a Diesel loco which passes the next emmisions rules, fits on UK loading gauge and has enough power to pull a train.

So old ones get rebuilt

MJI said:

The new rules on emmisions are hurting the railway industry as well.

Cannot build a Diesel loco which passes the next emmisions rules, fits on UK loading gauge and has enough power to pull a train.

So old ones get rebuilt

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I thought that this was a very clever wind-up

I've just checked

you're not joking

the world has gone mad, totally mad

We all be in v8 soon

dogsbody said:

I thought that this was a very clever wind-up

I've just checked

you're not joking

the world has gone mad, totally mad

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no not joking some high court judge rule'd yesterday that we are in breach of eu ruling on emissions, due to the large jump in diesel power'd vehicles, even the new breed of diesel power'd engines are breaking the new eu laws, one of the new proposal's is that plod are to get alternative power'd motors (electric)