"Daniel J. Stern" > wrote in message
n.umich.edu...
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, spare-me-spam wrote:
>
> > Is that the very same UK that is always bitching about how short
> > (<15-20km) oil change intervals in the US are screwing up the ecology?
>
> The very same UK. They also jumped halfassedly and belatedly onto the
> emission control bandwagon, requiring catalytic converters on all new cars
> in *1991* and _mostly_ taking leaded auto fuel off the market in 2000. Oh,
> and publishing all kinds of propaganda about how diesels are far cleaner
> and their exhaust less deleterious to health, and taxing their fuels to
> match this propaganda, until it was discovered (Whoops!) that they were
> wrong. When that discovery was made, they carried on as though nothing had
> happened, still babbling about how much cleaner/safer/better diesels
> are...
>
> Anyone who's been a pedestrian in London vs. New York knows they're full
> of ****.
>

Well, actually the thing is that there's fewer cars and car owners in London
than
in New York, so it kind of evens out.

Ted