In article , JNugent
writes
On 25/05/2021 04:22 pm, Andrew wrote:
On 25/05/2021 16:18, JNugent wrote:
On 25/05/2021 03:38 pm, Andrew wrote:
On 24/05/2021 19:23, Steve Walker wrote:
On 24/05/2021 17:49, JNugent wrote:
On 19/05/2021 01:55 pm, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

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When the coroner in London ruled that the little girl who died a few
months ago was due to pollution, there was quite a local fuss.
Of course
transport got the blame since she lived close to a busy main
road, but
several different types of sources will have contributed to that
pollution.

And unless lots of other people in the location where that
unfortunate girl lived are dropping like flies, falling victim to
(only) the self-same "pollution", then it was probably not the
pollution which killed her, though it might (or might not) have
exacerbated whatever it was.

For a time when I was a boy, we used to live directly on the A59
in central Liverpool, less than a hundred and fifty yards from
the Mersey Tunnel entrance. There were almost no emission
controls in those days, and as well as traffic (lots of it), we
were surrounded by dwellings burning coal in grates and various
industrial premises, including a nearby brewery, all doing the same.

We all managed to survive.

I have thought it very odd that asthma rates have been rising,
while vehicle emission controls have been improving and and all
forms of vehicle pollution have actually been falling
significantly, yet the action seems to be to pillory the motorist,
restrict when and where they can drive and charge them punitive
penalties for entering certain areas.

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.
You mean bribing them with zero or V low car tax, which was the
*only*
reason people bought diesel cars.

I don't agree. I bought my first diesel motor car in 1986. There was
then no Road Tax advantage, but compared with the petrol-engined
version, there was a noticeable improvement in mpg and at that time,
diesel was cheaper than four star.

I haven't heard of any diesel cars with £0 Road Tax, but the RT on mine
is £20 a year.

Anyone with a brain would have known
that any reduction on CO2 would be massively outweighed by an huge
increase in NO2 and diesel smoke.

That's the sort of thing which should be known to the government, surely?
Known to their scientific advisers one would have thought, but no.
--
bert