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Originally Posted by slowmover
Anti-diesel ”reasearch” is pretty well bunk. Politically skewed. Like the faked dangers of second-hand cigarette smoke. False, in that someone’s profit (or power) is what’s really at stake.
The energetic content of diesel makes it indisposable. Non-replaceable. Emissions controls have changed the rest.
The number of vehicles to service urban sprawl is the problem.
Why cities have sprawled is what you aren’t allowed to ask. “Why do we have commuters?” Power and profit are at stake.
Other choices would have precluded what you think of as a dilemma.
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I don't think Europe has adopted the war on NOx style emissions like the US has.
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