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royhall:
It's already illegal to remove a diesel particulate filter. These things have a habit of sneaking in.
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Kelly E:
I don't have a say in what goes on in your country but it would be a big deal here if the government tried to outlaw pattern parts. We have a huge aftermarket parts industry in the US. Not so long ago VW got caught for scamming the diesel emissions testing. The vehicles burned really clean when hooked up to the emission testers. When unplugged the computer ran a different fuel map to make better power and put it put out much more emissions. VW had to buy back the vehicles unless the owner wanted to keep it. You can't trust the manufacturers or the government to do the right thing.
Greed is rampant in the world these days. There are so many that want more than their share.
Laverda Dave:
https://youtu.be/s64kmGDxdUc
This is worth a watch and informs of the government's real intentions of future transport policy for us all.
The bright side though is by the time we are all effectively banned from owning any form of personal transport I'll be too old to care 😁
matthewmosse:
Signed. Like most government schemes its motives might be to reduce emissions or at least be seen to do something about it, but ultimately the details are influenced by lobbyists etc and the result is likely to be scrapping more vehicles and actually a net gain in emissions given the high cost in emissions of creating not to mention recycling vehicles. Vehicle manufacturers will make more money. I can accept electric vehicles are part of the solution for example, but it's not going to be the best solution at least with current tech if for example you don't do high mileage where the fixed emissions of creating and recycling vehicles will be higher than just carrying on with older tech.
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
IMHO electric cars at present are an exercise in moving the exhuast pipe from vehicle to power stations.
Why are we doing this - I'm not convinced global warming is primarily man made.
The sweeping statistics about carbon footprint calculations are IMAO as reliable as current weather forecasts - the last attempt at improving air & water quality world wide has just resulted in all dirty manufacturing processes moving to third world countries or those that did not sign up to the deal.
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