Diesel engined exhaust fumes are a major health risk.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....ajor-cancer-risk.html

Since the smoker has been forced to smoke outside the pub, should the smokers now demand that that all diesel driven vehicles should now be banned from the pub's car parks because they are now polluting the air outside?

[dave50]

No but it gives the powers that be a great excuse to increase taxes on diesel fuel. It's as though that if I have to pay more, it makes me somehow cause less pollution.

[DTCwordfan]

AOG what a load of Bull this is. - The answer is "was" - not with new vehicles.

The levels of particulates and NOx (Nitrous Oxides) has come down and down and down - many new cars today breathe out cleaner air then they take in. The EU could do a little more, as the next wave of standards coming in will be double of those of current US vehicles - and they are not really a diesel economy. (That also goes against the grain of the USA markets being dirtier than over here).

I worked in this field and even established a company for new NOx reduction technology using microadditives before the catalyst unit but which helped turn exhaust into CO2, Nitrogen and Water.

[DTCwordfan]

and any car/van/truck on the road in the last 8 years is inherently at a pretty good standard.

[d9f1c7]

I've always said that deisel is the work of satan!

[jno]

add it to the Daily Mail List of Things that Cause Cancer

http://hellokinsella....hings-that-give-you-c

[deggers316]

in our bus terminus (a completely covered interchange) on every bus stand its says drivers switch off engines, i have yet to pass a bus in its stand without it engine running !

[pdq1]

Some of the worst polluting vehicles on the road are PSVs or taxis. Maybe their should be a hotline to report these antisocial menacies.

[jno]

just move south of the Thames, you'll never see a taxi there