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US columnist ridicules Europe’s efforts to ‘green’ road transport

The policies of European governments to first promote diesel cars and now try and persuade citizens to go electric symbolise everything that’s wrong with the political class, a US columnist told his readers

Rik Thomas
17 February 2017
 

“Dieselgate is a political disaster,” said columnist Holman Jenkins in The Wall Street Journal on 14 February. “We’ll begin with the punch-line: less than 4/1,000ths of a degree Celsius. That’s how much warming might be spared half a century from now thanks to Europe’s decision, starting after the Kyoto treaty in the late 1990s, to switch more than 50% of its passenger cars to diesel.

“For this negligible result, Europe got significantly dirtier...

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