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Toby Douglass wrote:
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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?

Yup. and asthma one suspects.

For some reason they have never had the stringent (and carbon
innefficent) exhaust cleanups applied to them that petrol cars have.
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