Diesel: no answer to global warming

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Diesel: no answer to global warming [1]

Whenever the issue of urban smog due to diesel exhaust emissions is raised, auto companies vie that diesel is the answer to reducing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), the main greenhouse gas. But the last bastion of the powerful diesel lobby collapsed with a new study saying that though it takes less diesel to run a vehicle per km, it still does not help save fuel and control carbon emissions. The study is from France, where almost every fourth car is diesel-fuelled. It explodes the myth that diesel

Publication Date:

29/09/1999

Source: Down to Earth [2]

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Rural Habitat [3], Appropriate Technology [4], Rural Technology [5], Research [6], Developing Countries [7]

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