This is the push back against diesel.
Years ago, Europe chose diesel as a quick efficient way to lower the CO2 out put of cars but
in that haste, the ECE totally ignored or at least played down the severity of other pollutants
like NOX and particulate emissions. Pertol was taxed to the max to encourage the take up of
thosee more efficient diesels...
And now, Europe is changing the social agenda again, those same experts who convinced
everyone to switch to diesel are now publicly denouncing diesel, people who drive down the
street in a diesel car are being likened to rampant mass murderers ....good god save us all.
Do you know what I think,
I think European governments are broke and now that everyone with an lick of sense has
switched to diesel, it's time for the socialists to go to work on people's bank accounts
by taxing diesel and anyone who dares to use it. It has little to do with those nasty
emissions real or imagined... it's all about stripping more money form motorists.
Not really or in a full sense.
More about the other agenda's that do not want diesel around.
Can't compete with it even with all the rigging currently present - and all that sort of thing.
Hell, they cannot even make it against a conventional gasser - too many special interest groups on all sides really.....
Meanwhile..... anyone familiar with all the literature - including the two biggies about gassers that have disappeared from free or easy cheap public view ...... knows that without a doubt as far as automotive EM goes , the far greater concern is with specific regard to USA gassers. In particular DI equipped. - with higher compression.
The three and now soon to be four way cats are mini chemical reactors ..... and what they are splicing together is beyond - far beyond ..... not looking good.
The also soon arriving gasoline particulate filters will be just slightly better than window dressing .......
Also that aircraft and airports have far more impact of a far more negative nature than previously thought.
As does all kinds of Military activity........
As does airborne pollution from Asia, and shipping - especially with regard to and for the imports coming ashore.
Besides the massive duck involved with typical CI / 'gassers' and all the usual preframing, out right error and deliberate as well as unintended omission, currently available road going LD diesel is often blamed for every other conceivable source especially other middle distillate - including but not limited to older uncontrolled or barely controlled big and heavy commercial diesel equipment, heating oil, bunker oil etc - and even coal EM on occasion.
As to the rest, you can safely bet your ass that a bunch of stuff involving
Big this and Big that - are why things are changing up so quickly and so badly.
The Vaccine Industry are today's equivalent to Big Tobacco from days of yore - not any of that has been handled sensibly either.
New and Improved as far as all the spin goes so really -
Any serious student comes up quickly upon that and all that goes with it.
The far more interesting thing ( 'imo' ) is to chase down ..... shall we say.......... is the common money behind it all.
And then, the actual people and processes behind all that.
Good work - hard work is being done ......
Meanwhile Fukushima is single handily changing the Pacific ( and elsewhere ) along the lines of an extinction event - which given how it has been handled it certainly is , and the Deep Water Horizon Fiasco ( still very much ongoing ) and all that goes with it are finishing off nicely all that is left on the otherside..... while fracking is taking care of what Monsanto et al hasn't destroyed in terms of ( US ) land based water supply.
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As far as transportation goes, the only possible way out - in the long run is without a doubt - non carbon fuels.
There will be........from necessity .......... imperfect steps along the way.
And some things with carbon based fuels that will end up 'almost there'.
'Gasoline' ( SI full or part time ) somewhat paradoxically needs the most work ( by far ) and outright replacement; and yet, in many ways that really matter...... has the greatest potential as a useful intermediate step.
Especially if one goes back further into the refinery chain and closer to the basestock.