Petrol over diesel

[Burgess]

I believe diesels produce less greenhouse gases then petrol (which is why the government tried to get everyone to buy one a few years ago) but are worse for local air quality.

[Daniël Bos]

Yeah it's a struggle ad what's good for environment and what's good for ones pocket are two different things. Again, starting to sound like sceptical broken record, but the electric is generated somewhere.

Corsa van has been fantastic. 1.3cdti very nippy little motor. Thinking of one of the Peugeot bipper vans.

 

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Ecotricity!

Be the solution!

[markieg31]

Not sure if exmoor has many charging stations [emoji3]

 

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[Woodworks]

We have changed the family car to a petrol having run diesels for years. Personally I think particulates from them are worse for us. As an asthmatic the output from dirty diesels set me off.

 

Regardless of pollution modern diesel engines are getting very complicated which in turn is making them less reliable.

[littlerob]

all i know start a petrol engine in a room vs starting a diesel engine in a room i guarantee that the petrol will start to make you feel bad

[Spinner]

Diesel or petrol there is still pollution. One day we are told to buy diesel the next is go back to petrol. Many years back when diesel was cheap you would struggle to buy a diesel powered commercial vehicle under 3500kg gross. Now it's the other way round. I know a few people that have bought a big American petrol truck and run them on gass. Pull anything and cheap to run and look after etc. What i would say is that all modern diesels are getting so complicated, and reliant on computer management, they are becoming impossible to maintain yourself, or awa from a main dealert. And if a diesel engine gets a fault out of warranty then inevitably it wil cost a fortune to fix. With a petrol engine you still stand a chance.

Diesel fuel is bound to keep increasing in price and even now it's getting debatable if a diesel powered machine, or vehicle, is actually cheaper to buy / run / maintain in the long term. Diesel engines are also getting so expensive to build they can often be the most expensive part of a machine. I would not be surprised if we start to see more manufactures of machinery, and maybe commercial vehicles, starting to offer petrol engines again.

As for electric, well great let's all go electric, but ask yourself how the heck will they produce that electric power, never mind distribute it though a power grid that is already struggling.

[littlerob]

Diesel or petrol there is still pollution. One day we are told to buy diesel the next is go back to petrol. Many years back when diesel was cheap you would struggle to buy a diesel powered commercial vehicle under 3500kg gross. Now it's the other way round. I know a few people that have bought a big American petrol truck and run them on gass. Pull anything and cheap to run and look after etc. What i would say is that all modern diesels are getting so complicated, and reliant on computer management, they are becoming impossible to maintain yourself, or awa from a main dealert. And if a diesel engine gets a fault out of warranty then inevitably it wil cost a fortune to fix. With a petrol engine you still stand a chance.

Diesel fuel is bound to keep increasing in price and even now it's getting debatable if a diesel powered machine, or vehicle, is actually cheaper to buy / run / maintain in the long term. Diesel engines are also getting so expensive to build they can often be the most expensive part of a machine. I would not be surprised if we start to see more manufactures of machinery, and maybe commercial vehicles, starting to offer petrol engines again.

As for electric, well great let's all go electric, but ask yourself how the heck will they produce that electric power, never mind distribute it though a power grid that is already struggling.

exactly on the electric front we have all these wind turbines yet alone the country with be in black out if we turned of one power station so to speak. so if suddenly there was say 10k electric vehicles over night bought on average there between 6.5 kw and 9.5kw for could be say be an average of 80000000 extra watts of power