If you have a diesel car, look out.

Surely, a reduction in supply is only going to increase the value of any diesel that you own. It's not as if garages are going to stop selling the fuel, given the number of white vans around.

The reduction in supply is due to reduction in demand - no-one in their right mind will buy one so prices will go through the floor.

No oner will buy new ones, but old ones hold value

Demand for diesels in the UK has fallen off a cliff. Just for once I managed to do something right when I outed my diesel LR Discovery III, 2 years ago and bought a petrol replacement (not from JLR. I finally came to my senses).

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"UK diesel car sales fall by 25% in January";

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"UK car registrations slide in February as slump in demand for diesel bites";

"23.5 per cent slump in registrations of new diesel cars."

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"Diesel slide continues as UK car sales fall for 11th month running";

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"Decline in car sales eases but diesel collapse continues";

As the evidence on health risks rises, there may come a time when the govt. decides to price them off the road by hiking the road tax or taxing diesel fuel.

If it were not for the bad press that diesels have got recently and the fear that some cities will ban them or make you pay extra, I'd definitely buy another diesel. I much much prefer driving a diesel and I like the lower fuel consumption and hence greater range on a tank of fuel.

My car is coming up to 10 years old and is starting to cost fir repairs to the anti pollution system. I will be gutted when eventually have to get rid if it and replace it with a petrol which is gutless and has a noisy high revving engine (unless I get a powerful engine).

I wish electrics had advanced where they had the same 700 mile range and 5 minute refuel time as ICE cars. I mainly make fairly short journey nowadays but no way would I get a car that didnt have the ability to make a longer journey if i needed to eg if our main car was ever off the road or bith my wife and i needed to make" long" (greater than 100 mile) journeys at the same time.

Make diesel more expensive and the RPI goes up. Almost everything we buy is moved by diesel powered commercial vehicles. In 2015, HGVs and vans in the UK consumed 11.7 million tonnes of diesel fuel.

Very good, Sir Humphrey, in that case ban diesel cars from city centres? Or impose a 60MPH speed limit for diesels on motorways.

and a lot of railway locomotives are diesel powered.

Just because VAG fiddled some tests shouldn't make all diesels pariahs. I've been a diesel car driver since 1990.

OK, so clean air motorways.

Perhaps petrol cars should not be able to engage a gear until the cat has warmed up too.

I would love to go back to a petrol engine.

you can't rewrite history

tim

Maybe not, but it sure as hell dented a lot of folk?s trust in all emission standards and testing. Frankly, I don?t believe that VW were the only ones fiddling the tests, they were just pretty clever at it.

We?re being told that the latest standards are just fine and everything is hunkydory again and yet given the yawning gulf that was exposed between ?real world? emissions and ?tested? emissions I?m not sure I?m in any hurry to believe that things are necessarily ?fixed?.

Tim

That would easily be sorted by altering the tax paid on diesel and petrol, in the favour of petrol. And by buying a car with a large enough tank - just how far to you need to drive before stopping for fuel?

You'll actually drive 700 miles without a stop? Even at 70 mph, that is 10 hours solid driving. Most would expect to stop at least once in that time for a comfort break and likely a meal. So could re-fuel then.

And if not doing a long journey silly to carry around a large amount of fuel.

All the measurements made in city centres say diesels are the main source of harmful pollutants. CO2 not being regarded as a harmful pollutant in this case.

You'd live in a very odd place if you could access a motorway before the cat. has heated up.

If you want a small petrol engine that pulls like a diesel find one with a turbo or supercharger. It's that which makes the difference.

If you really want to define gutless, think of older small diesels before turbos became the norm.

But unless you have a very large wallets, you go well away from the motorway to refuel