Posted on 11/28/2017 7:59:42 AM PST by Olog-hai
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the federal government will provide €1 billion ($1.2 billion) to cities and towns across the country in 2018 in an effort to make traffic more environmentally friendly. […]
Many cities in Germany face driving bans because the air pollution is frequently above the allowed maximum levels due to the many cars’ exhaust fumes.
The funds are to be invested among other things into electric buses, electric charging stations and a more environmentally friendly traffic infrastructure. …
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“invest” = “squander”
HEY !!! Angela !!!
that stinky smell is coming from all those illegal alien moslems you let into your country...
spend that money on some soap and water if youre not going to stop them from coming...
Actually kind of nice she’s created this magnet for them.
Will make them easy to bomb in about 15 years.
Stop exhaling if you believe CO2 is a dangerous pollutant.
Problem solved overnight.
...just as Germany transitions from clean nuclear to near-exclusive coal burning for electricity production, and at great cost.
” The funds are to be invested among other things into electric buses, electric charging stations”
yeah, that’ll make a big dent ...
The fine print of the deal is that they can’t ban diesel car entry into their cities. Right now, I count 28 cities on the verge. Based on the billion....you can expect a thousand cities to throw up a potential ban, and the billion will have to be broken up and really not seem like that much as you fan out across the sixteen German states. The question will be...is that enough money to talk them out of the ban idea that they are pursuing? I kinda doubt it.
They should have gone to offer up twenty billion to the diesel car owners, and just agreed to pay blue-book value and crush them all. Owners would have bought new gas cars and the economy would have gone through some boom period for two years.
Meanwhile, diesel engines are generally more heat-efficient than gasoline ones, at about all speed ranges.
I used to have a Dasher diesel wagon. Going down the road in the winter, the heater put out good heat, but whenever you came to a stop light, it would go lukewarm.
Or just send them to us. I'd like to have a nice TDI, nothing at all wrong with them.
(unless you're a barking moonbat)
There are literally twenty-odd advantages of the diesel over gas....I’ve heard this from various Germans. The problem I see is that they should have sat there developing some type of filter-cleaner back twenty years ago, and never did. Meanwhile, the EU on it’s own, has been pressing for standard changes every five years.
When you lay out the enormous value of the diesel cars owned by the German public and the child-like games of these metropolitan communities...it ought to be drawing tons of political anger by the public. Yet, we went through an entire election cycle where this never came up in Q and A.
Right now....used car handlers in Germany won’t even discuss trades or purchases with diesel cars unless you knock off one-third of the blue-book value. Even a two-year old BMW...has lost tons of value because of this entire mess triggered by 28 city governments within Germany.
I watched some news piece three months ago where some used car dealer was buying for substantially less, and walking across the border into Czech, and selling for the normal blue-book value. Other than the paperwork to introduce it into Czech, no one cared about this diesel business.
It’s just like the Fukushima business....Germans got all hyped up and triggered some massive shut of nuke plants on an immediate scale. No comprehension of consequences. Same attitude with Glyphosate and this national race to end the herbicide usage, with no substitute on the horizon.
Well, by “heat efficient” I meant capability of less energy being lost as heat versus a gas engine, and so less fuel wasted.
The Dasher was called the Passat in Europe. The 1.6/1.7-liter diesel put out 48 horses, about the same as the Beetle. The Quantum was based on the next generation Passat, too.
Yeah and when it get Cold there they use Coal, wood pellets and even aborted baby bodies! Fake News!
Well, if I wasn't "working" the engine, it didn't make any heat. You could probably put your hand on the exhaust manifold if it had been idling for a while. Don't try that with the gas version.
Sounds like a problematic heater core.
AFAIK, glyphosate just got re-approved by the benevolent EU bureaucracy. So that’s over with, for now.
Sounds like a diesel.
I once had a vehicle come into the shop, a bread truck. They complained of no heat.
We let it idle for hours, even pinched off the radiator hoses with sticks and c-clampa....It ran just fine, but wouldn’t make any significant heat till you took it down the road.
The Dasher had a great heater, as long as there was hot coolant flowing through it.
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