It Was Sold As the Great 'Green' Fuel. But with Prices at a Record High, Have Diesel Drivers Been Taken for a Ride?

Daily MailMay 22, 2008

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TOUTED as the fuel of the future, it was once condemned as a noxious menace, responsible for belching clouds of carcinogenic particles into the atmosphere and into our lungs.

Now diesel is the acceptable, green face of motoring.

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It Was Sold As the Great 'Green' Fuel. But with Prices at a Record High, Have Diesel Drivers Been Taken for a Ride?

Diesel cars have never been so popular. At the end of the Nineties, only about one in eight cars in Britain used diesel; this year the figure is set to nudge 50 per cent. In France, more than seven in ten cars sold are powered by it.

Modern diesel engines are generally reliable, emit relatively little CO2, and black smoke is large...

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