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Re:Decades of diesel use in Europe have created a public hea... by diffeomorphism on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @10:15AM (#21203458)
How is that related to diesel vs petrol?

Why would using petrol be "far worse"?

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Re:Decades of diesel use in Europe have created a public hea... by ThomPete on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @10:19AM (#21203497)
Well if you care about CO2 petrol is more than that.
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Re:Decades of diesel use in Europe have created a public hea... by diffeomorphism on Thursday October 10, 2019 @05:45AM (#21212582)
And if you care about NOx and other pollutants diesel is more than that, which is what the article is about.
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Re:Decades of diesel use in Europe have created a public hea... by ThomPete on Thursday October 10, 2019 @06:46AM (#21212921)
It's about a public health risk. Which needs to be contracted by how many lives it saved. Thats the only way to look at this if you want to assess whether it was a good or bad idea in the first place.
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