On 2008-05-27 11:32:48 +0100, "Doctor Drivel" said:


"Toby Douglass" wrote
in message om...
wrote:
What they probably mean is that by introducing cleaner diesels (in the
particulate/smog sense) they have persuaded new buyers to pick a diesel
50% of the time, but that market is now saturated and if they want to
further reduce their *carbon* emissions they must look elsewhere than
sell people the better-mpg diesels which have been achieving that goal
so far.

Hasn't diesel caused a huge soot problem? they emit a lot more
particulate matter?

They do and it is cacogenic.

You mean it gives you the ****s?