ByeBye Diesels

[Niall]

Don't worry, in about 30 days, another bloke with a beard sat in a university will have devoted the last 23 years to discover that if you force feed a rat fumes from a petrol car - it dies... Then will attribute it to some bullshit reason and we'll be flapping about petrols being the death of all of us.

Then maybe some day someone will realise that driving cars round filled with Lithium, Lead and Sulphuric Acid isn't the best idea either and we'll all die from them too!

I've given up reading the news - I don't watch TV anymore and I specifically avoid all newspapers because it's all bullshit!

100% this. The media is just ridiculous these days and pisses me off big time. No matter what happens, they will always find a scientist who can give you a serious negative point or two to any fuel used. Generally fi you do some research, said scientist is employed by said media company and is paid to have a heavily biased opinion....so basically, its bollocks.

Diesel will never disappear all together. We need it for lorries etc. Can you really imagine a petrol lorry producing 500hp and silly amounts of torque being as economical and eco friendly? Nah, not any time soon (not saying it won't happen!)

Its quite simple really. We need to get rid of some of the cars on the road. There is so many cars on the road which are just used for popping to the shops or taking the brats to school 1/2 mile down the road. Our road network can't cope with all these cars as it is. Get rid of these cars and we will have less pollution, fossil fuels will go further, people will be happier and healthier with more walking and breathing in less fumes...only downside is the automotive market would start to struggle but i bet you would find there would be less money lost there as there is in the NHS for things like road accidents and health issues because of fumes.

IMO, tax the bollocks off of people who don't need cars...but then of course the group of people who moan about everything they don't get handed to them on a silver platter will complain, blame it all on the government and go and support UKIP.