Panic panic the EU + Her Maj Gov are going to ban diesel engined vehicles

[Luxxo Waftybarger]

Am I really the only one who is affected by diesel fumes?

They make me sick to the extent, that on busy Saturdays, when there is a lot of shopping traffic congestion in front of my house,

I can't go outside and walk down the pavement. I get convulsive cough attacks and have to puke.

I can't drive diesels. If I have to reverse and thus drive into my own exhaust fumes, I get convulsive cough attacks as well.

Filling up a diesel at a petrol station is emetic for me.

 

So for me, the bigger the panic and the sooner those things are banned from towns, the better.

Similar but not so bad

 

I had to walk to work up a steep hill every morning with trucks, land rovers, and every other diseasel loving commuter riding their clutch belting out smog in my face. My lungs started feeling like they were in a vice. It got so bad that now I walk a shorter route that takes twice as long.

 

When I lived in London my shirt collars used to turn black by the end of the day. That stuff is in your lungs too.

 

I also prefer polar bears to school kids, just amazed our government also does.

 

I did some work on a different topic with client earth a few years back. Brilliant organisation that aren't the usual NGO trustafarians. Qualified lawyers sometimes taking a massive pay cut to actually force the Government to do the right thing.

[Junkman]

I vehemently disagree with the polar bears vs. school kids thing.

I don't give a shit about polar bears and find humans wonderful and fascinating creatures.

I consider any other stance immensely misanthropic and fascist, so no wonder the eugenic UN-NWO-puppet governments have it.

[MrDuke]

Well, consider me proud to be a misanthropic fascist.

 

I agree that certain individual humans can be wonderful and fascinating. The human race as a whole, however, is a revolting pustule on the arse of Mother Nature, capable of pre-meditated behaviour that defies any boundary of logic or decency. And I'm not just referring to big bad government policies. Fortunately, it looks like human civilisation might just implode before it's managed to destroy all other forms of life.

[320touring]

I'm gonna call Godwin on this:)

[jonny69]

I vehemently disagree with the polar bears vs. school kids thing.

I don't give a shit about polar bears and find humans wonderful and fascinating creatures.

I consider any other stance immensely misanthropic and fascist, so no wonder the eugenic UN-NWO-puppet governments have it.

 

Read up on environmental indicators. Large mammals at the top of their natural food chains are the easiest to monitor when environmental degradation is occurring - since they are the easiest to spot when they start disappearing. They are excellent proxies to environmental degradation because they show that their food chain and/or habitat has also degraded.

[xtriple]

Going against the AS spirit here, but I do declare that I hate diesels with a passion that borders on the psychopathic! They are not so bad to be around now they have the dreaded DPFs but before they did, the smell of the bastards made me sick. Genuinely throwing up sick. If I get diesel on my hands I blister like I've been attacked with a blowtorch. Can't go to the fair even as I'm sick in minutes due to their generators.

 

I've been saying for years (decades?) that all diesels are bad for you and it's only political views that have made them popular. The sooner the last diesel car is banished the better. They have a use/place in HGVs and trains and such as they are efficient (more efficient than petrols I hate to admit) and frugal and the transport firms have enough problems as it is.

 

I don't know what the answer is 'cos A, I'm not a politician so not out to line my own pockets at your (and mine) expense, and B, I'm not a genius with all the answers!

 

My son who is heavily involved in modern powertrain development has a very firm view regarding diesels and it isn't favourable.

[CHRIS1980]

I get that from living in a place called Castle Donington with hourly buses that stop at 19:30.

Are you comparing London...the capital city to castle donnington? And therefore demand that your local transport companies provide 24hr service like in London? Its not the frequency it's the reliability and the cost. If I lived in Berlin,another capital city to compare to,I would happily use public transport and not a smokey diesel.

[Negative Creep]

Well, consider me proud to be a misanthropic fascist.

 

I agree that certain individual humans can be wonderful and fascinating. The human race as a whole, however, is a revolting pustule on the arse of Mother Nature, capable of pre-meditated behaviour that defies any boundary of logic or decency. And I'm not just referring to big bad government policies. Fortunately, it looks like human civilisation might just implode before it's managed to destroy all other forms of life.

 

 

Animals don't care about the environment either - if a cat sees a rare songbird it won't think about how they should be preserved before it pounces -it's just they can only cause a small level of damage

[CHRIS1980]

The other thing that gets me is the deforestation of the planet that the politicians ignore. The lungs of the planet chopped down but no one tries to stop that.

[OwdChina]

Yep, the problem iscities, plain and simple.

 

They'll be banning farting next.

 

 

It's Brussels they're probably getting the documentation together as we speak.

And this is why we have the silent one as a backup. Evidence to suggest the event has occurred but very very difficult to trace the source. 

[MrDuke]

Animals don't care about the environment either - if a cat sees a rare songbird it won't think about how they should be preserved before it pounces -it's just they can only cause a small level of damage

 

Precisely. Nature has ways of maintaining its own equilibrium, which may well result in small sacrifices but ultimately allows for a cohesive whole. The majority of documented cases of one animal species wiping out another (or several other) species can be traced back to direct human interference.

 

The very fact that we have superior (cough) intelligence, and the faculties of reason and foresight, makes our collective actions and attitudes even more deplorable and unforgivable.

[castros_bro]

Animals don't care about the environment either - if a cat sees a rare songbird it won't think about how they should be preserved before it pounces -it's just they can only cause a small level of damage

 

That'll be the cats that humans have selected, bred and kept alive with processed food and antibiotics rather then nature's songbirds.

[dollywobbler]

Animals also aren't intelligent enough to consider the impact of what they do. We should be intelligent enough to see how out of control our consumerism is, and what damage it does to the world. 

[Angrydicky]

Don't care, diesels are shit anyway. As long as old petrol cars aren't regulated off the roads any time soon, I'm happy. Even thirsty ones like old 2300 Vauxhalls!