High sulphur content in fuel is certainly a problem for the very latest common rail diesel systems, but frankly the car buying public shares much of the blame.

Gasoline is so apparently inexpensive that we act as if it were limitless, it never occurs to people that there is any reason not to burn it like it was going out of fashion. If burning less fuel were important to car buyers they would purchase more fuel efficient vehicles. The only way to make burning less fuel important to the majority of people is to make fuel more expensive, it is as simple as that. Most people are fundamentally selfish, and until something hurts them personally they won't give a crap about it.

We get to the UK once or twice per year, and each time we go it irks me that we are not able to buy some of the really neat looking vehicles on sale there. Cars with a small road footprint that offer amazing interior space with versatile seating, and efficient, powerful, diesel engines that get great mileage.

Kevin

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