On 25/05/2021 04:59 pm, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

JNugent wrote:
You only need to walk along the side of a busy road to notice the pong
on NO2. This wasn't the case 20 years ago. Now There are 10+ million
diesel engined cars on the road and the vast majority are not EU6
compliant. There needs a massive cull of older diesel clunkers.

It's really odd, because until only a handful of years ago, the
government was doing all it could to encourage buyers to buy diesel.

Yes. From those in government who don't want to know about different types
of pollution. A diesel generally produces less CO2 than the equivalent
petrol, but more NOx and of course particulates.

"Gordon Brown" was the chap's name.