Both diesel and petrol fuels contain hydrocarbons as the power-generating component. When burnt with oxygen in the air, the hydrocarbons form water and carbon dioxide. Diesel engines burn the fuel very slightly more efficiently and emit very slightly less greenhouse gases than a car with a petrol engine.
BUT, diesel exhaust also contains MORE poisonous oxides of nitrogen plus microscopic particles of carbon soot, which trigger heart attacks, strokes, asthma and other nasty medical conditions; as well as absorbing heat when floating in the atmosphere and causing global warming. Diesel exhaust also causes killer smogs.
As a result of the Blair regime’s “dash for diesel”, fuelled by lower vehicle taxes, British people are dying prematurely of diseases caused by diesel pollution, and the country faces being fined by the EU for failing to meet the EU’s arbitrary maximum permitted air pollution levels.
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