Europe's love affair with diesel cars has been a disaster http://www.vox.com/2015/10/15/9541789/volkswagen-europe-diesel-pollution "Europe's diesel push might have seemed sensible once upon a time. But 20 years later, with the benefit of hindsight, it looks like a huge mistake, an impotent climate policy that had all sorts of unintended consequences."
Made what seemed like a pointless decision-trading a small decrease in Euro CO2 for a significant increase in NOX SOOT SMOG- But remember-FUEL PRICES-oil-was expected to rise and rise so using less oil-drove this policy The CO2 decrease-wasn't the main goal. It was all about decreasing oil consumption-reliance on the unstable ME Yeah no one predicted $42 oil-in 2015-or the USA becoming a fuel exporter- FRACKING ETC It wasn't really climate-it was OIL running out-becoming more expensive-crashing economies It might have been SOLD as about climate-GREEN- but it was about oil economies and dependence on the unstable middle east
France is also going to stop investing in the development of coal-fired power plants just in time for a major climate conference ... http://www.thelocal.fr/20151015/france-diesel-petrol-environment
