Grant V
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I think we're being duped.
Years ago we were being told that petrol cars were Satan itself and that diesels were 'clean' and environmentally friendly. I used to look at the black diesel smoke belching out of the exhausts on a 240D Benz as a kid and some how years later when the 'clean diesel' thing came about, I just couldn't tie the ends of this argument together. But the world did and governments were encouraging everyone to change to diesel through tax breaks for a clean, environmentally friendly motoring solution.
Now I understand that diesel is the new sin resulting in untold deaths and respiratory problems and that they now need to be banned.
Now....electric cars - I can't tie up this argument either. To generate electricity, the world needs gas, coal or nuclear power stations and neither of those are environmentally friendly. And the batteries are made from lithium which is being mined on a grand scale down in South America effing up their environment. For most European greens South America is sufficiently far enough away not to have to look this one in the eye. Electric cars are 'clean' and the future, all the greens (and Leonardo Dicaprio) say.
And all the governments, particularly the French, are having a go at cars, but carefully avoiding the massive emissions from airplanes, ships and railways. Huh?? Can people not think for themselves?
I think I will put my QP in sport mode on the way home tonight and rev it to the limit to re-boot my system.
Years ago we were being told that petrol cars were Satan itself and that diesels were 'clean' and environmentally friendly. I used to look at the black diesel smoke belching out of the exhausts on a 240D Benz as a kid and some how years later when the 'clean diesel' thing came about, I just couldn't tie the ends of this argument together. But the world did and governments were encouraging everyone to change to diesel through tax breaks for a clean, environmentally friendly motoring solution.
Now I understand that diesel is the new sin resulting in untold deaths and respiratory problems and that they now need to be banned.
Now....electric cars - I can't tie up this argument either. To generate electricity, the world needs gas, coal or nuclear power stations and neither of those are environmentally friendly. And the batteries are made from lithium which is being mined on a grand scale down in South America effing up their environment. For most European greens South America is sufficiently far enough away not to have to look this one in the eye. Electric cars are 'clean' and the future, all the greens (and Leonardo Dicaprio) say.
And all the governments, particularly the French, are having a go at cars, but carefully avoiding the massive emissions from airplanes, ships and railways. Huh?? Can people not think for themselves?
I think I will put my QP in sport mode on the way home tonight and rev it to the limit to re-boot my system.