27-01-2015, 10:20 AM
Its your dirty old diesels that are the issue... I have a DPF and working EGR....nothing but fresh air leaves my exhaust. 
Also who's buying diesels in London anyway? Hopefully no-one as they'll just be blocking up DPFs every week and getting no better mpg that a petrol anyway so its only really people from outside London that will have the issue.
That said, the biggest polluters are the busses, the cloud you get as they pull away is disgusting....Clarkson is on to something with getting rid of busses imo!
The gov't also aren't saying buy petrol....in London why not electric cars? Makes perfect sense there. My idea would be similar to park and ride or Boris bikes, that you drive your nice eco diesel ~50 miles to the edge of London, park up and hire an electric car for the day, no congestion charge, no fuel bill, and I'm sure on a big enough scale the rental could be fairly cheap.
Also who's buying diesels in London anyway? Hopefully no-one as they'll just be blocking up DPFs every week and getting no better mpg that a petrol anyway so its only really people from outside London that will have the issue.
That said, the biggest polluters are the busses, the cloud you get as they pull away is disgusting....Clarkson is on to something with getting rid of busses imo!
The gov't also aren't saying buy petrol....in London why not electric cars? Makes perfect sense there. My idea would be similar to park and ride or Boris bikes, that you drive your nice eco diesel ~50 miles to the edge of London, park up and hire an electric car for the day, no congestion charge, no fuel bill, and I'm sure on a big enough scale the rental could be fairly cheap.