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I thought the article was all about reducing carbon consumption but ...


But what?


Electric cars from non fossil generated electricity will cut both carbon
and other emissions?

Yes but switching to diesel saves precious little.

It probably saves about 30%.

It is a gross
exaggeration to claim that switching to diesel has "dramatically brought
down" fuel consumption let alone carbon consumption and with the price
disparity these days the economic benefit is looking a bit thin as well.


Well it depends on what you call 'dramatic' - i'd say that 30% on mpg
and nearly that on CO2*, is significant, but not dramatic.

The economic benefit is (now) stripped away almost entirely by the high
cost of diesel.

* diesel having less hydrogen to carbon ratio, is somewhat nearer to
coal than to gas..petrol tends in the other direction. Though additives
lower it again.