Hello
Remundo wrote:Did67 is absolutely right.
It has been a long time since the advantages granted to Diesel should have been limited, to rebalance the fleet.
Even today, almost 4 out of 5 new cars are Diesel.
This does not include the fleet of heavy goods vehicles 100% Diesel,
While we are in very serious deficit of Diesel leaving the refinery, forcing us to export our gasoline to buy diesel ...
Or else to build expensive petrol / diesel conversion installations, installations that are not really done ...
Overall a very poorly managed affair.
All is said
I understand very well the French government which bet on the development of diesel cars, in an era where diesel and to protect its automobile market (we see enough Japanese cars on our roads and soon it will be Chinese)
diesel was a byproduct of petroleum and had more than petrol but the government was not visionary enough to see that the demand for kerosene for airplanes and diesel products was going to exceed its capacity produce. A government has a very short view just as long as they are elected, after the others will manage ...
And I also find it deplorable that by fiscal means we favor this or that energy and once the system is well established, we change the data. It is a bit as if we favored all-electric heating for a people, and once the system is adopted by a majority we increase the price of electricity, and then we try to make consumers feel guilty.
These great thinkers are not able to see 50 years ahead
it looks like he improvises day by day ..
Andre