Dryce
Hardcore MB Enthusiast
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Interesting. I'm still hearing "the government made me buy diesel", but that's something I don't buy.
While I don't like the simplistic "the government made me buy diesel" it is something that I do buy to some extent in terms of government culpability - they basically set the initial conditions that caused the market to skew. The public then stampeded towards diesels and the manufacturers responded. The vicious circle complete - further reinforced by some of the positive attributes of modern diesel engines.
Wait for them to focus even more on electric cars - skew the market again - and then we'll discover some unexpected inconvenient truth about those as we end up with a larger population of them with more resources being consumed and more issues with disposal and recycling.