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Originally Posted by suspectnumber961
"When you work it out, though, it gets twice as good fuel efficiency, so you actually get less pollutants in the air," even though emissions are 10 percent worse, the man said.
* and this doesn't include the reduced (by 1/2?) amount of pollutants released getting the fuel out of the ground...transported...refined...and to the pump for sale.....
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It would be nice to have these cars here, but I'm opposed to reducing emissions standards across the board to do it. If our law could be amended with a formula to allow diesel models of, for example, the Passat, that meet or beat the emissions of the gasoline Passat through higher mpg to offset higher emissions, then I'd snap-up one of these for my next car.
But doesn't the political analysis of the piece seem really weak? It's really simplistically focused on the current president without any attention to the historical context in terms of politics or transportation infrastructure in the USA. We're not Europe, and our emissions standards were set for our configuration of transportation dependencies, development, and geography.