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cepheus wrote: »

Air quality: A follow up report Ninth Report of Session 2010–12

Summary

In 2010 our predecessor Environmental Audit Committee reported on Air Quality. It
found that poor air quality is shortening the life expectancy of people in the UK by an
average of seven to eight months and is costing society up to £20 billion per year. It called
for an urgent step change in policy to reduce pollution from transport.

Over the past year the evidence of the damage caused by air pollution has grown stronger.
But the UK is still failing to meet European targets for safe air pollution limits across many
parts of the country. The step change called for has not happened.

The Government has failed to get to grips with this issue. Most of the measures set out in
its response to our predecessors’ report are yet to be brought in. Forty out of the UK’s 43
assessment zones are failing to meet EU targets and poor air quality is now found to be
shortening the lives of up to 200,000 people by an average of 2 years. The Government
must not continue to put the health of the nation at risk. It needs to:

• Prioritise action across central Government by putting improving air quality in the
Defra Business Plan, and set up a Cabinet Office lead Ministerial Group to oversee
delivery of a new cross government air quality strategy;
• Engage with local authority leaders clearly to set out the risks of failing to act to
improve air quality, and join up thinking across local authority departments so they all
contribute to solving this problem;
• Establish a national framework of low emissions zones to help local authorities reduce
pollution from traffic;
• Ensure that thinking on air quality is central to public health reforms that will transfer
public health functions to local authorities;
• Launch a public awareness campaign to drive air quality up the political agenda and
inform people about the positive action they could take to reduce emissions and their
exposure to these.

Four thousand people died as a result of the Great Smog of London in 1952 and this led to
the introduction of the Clean Air Act in 1956. In 2008, 4,000 people died in London from
air pollution and 30,000 died across the whole of the UK.

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmenvaud/1024/1024.pdf

cepheus wrote: »

If you are short of cash, drive and use less, that will save quite a bit. Personally I don't want to pay for others health bills due to the crap your car gives out.

The reason Diesels are supposed to be cleaner nowadays is because they are fittted with emission control equipment and have advanced electronic management systems set up to reduce emissions.

Perhaps you have missed the point of the thread, it is about removing emission control equipment and fiddling with the engine controls. That document doesn't seem to realise people do this, so when the air quality doesn't improve they will tighten up controls even more, and introduce even more complexity and expense.