dennis@home wrote:


"magwitch" wrote in message
...
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at
10:41:35 on Tue, 27 May 2008, Roger
remarked:
"Cleaner diesel cars have dramatically brought down average
emissions in
Europe but diesel now accounts for about half of the market and
carmakers are looking elsewhere to cut their emissions."

Now what emissions would they be then?

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

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.

Diesels don't have catalytic converters... petrol engines do and
therefore emit more C02

Mine does.

Mine doesn't.