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Thursday, November 23, 2006

Hibernation for cars with diesel engine

Imagine you are a car powered by an diesel engine (hopefully by an very powerful one) and having no diesel particulate filter. If your home is Graz or its surroundings, you only have to hold out about 3 weeks. Then a wonderful, comfortable and stress-free period will start - you can't (have not to) drive every day (no, this is not because you are a Lada or a Mazda ;-) ).

To get to the point - we are no cars (what a pity) - but what I want to talk about is the period with possible bans on driving starting on december 15th. This bans on driving, affecting all cars powered by diesel engines without having a diesel particulate filter, will become effective after 5 days exceeding the threshold value for particulate matter emmission.
This rule affects me too, but I don't want to install a diesel particulate filter - not yet.
Well, for me there are a lot of things which should be discussed about this subject.
So statistics about the harming particulate matter emmission for people's health are mainly from the 80's (at least as per information from a big austrian driver club).
The next important point is, that only 14,9 percent of the emission are caused by road traffic - and there less than the half is by passenger cars. So the main culprits are the burning of houses (36,8 percent) and the industry (31,5 percent) (information by ÖAMTC). Why we are hearing nothing (or not much) about sanctions for them?
It seems that there only a hysteria about particulate matter emmission is created at car drivers.
In my opinion there are a lot of questions refering to this topic:
- Will there be a measurable improvement of the air quality, only if on such days some cars are not allowed to drive?
- Why there are no more sanctions against industrial firms?
- Why the lowering of speed limits on highways during the winter is also valid for cars powered by petrol engines (which are considered to be clean)?
Frankly speaking I await this new rule concerning the bans on driving very relaxed, although I think that there will be a pretty chaos. A lot of people will get problems on their way to their job, because of meeting problems:
- there are too little numbers of park and ride places
- the timetable of of the public transport companies are having a too small frequence
- and so on.

So I just look forward to the period after december 15th. Then we will see how we are able to deal with our new not existing mobility. (I'm sorry, I forgot, that there are also a lot of people who are not affected by this rule - my question to anyone of them: do you have a free place for a passenger left in your car? - then I might be reliant on you! :-) )

1 Comments:

At Friday, November 24, 2006 11:26:00 am, Blogger Nadin-Campus02 said...

...by a very powerful one) and you're having no ... only have to cope with 3 weeks.

... you can't (don't have to)

on December 15th

a big Austrian club

only 14.9

less than half is caused by ....

burning houses? -> emissions of heatings?

Why do we hear nothing about...

It seems the hysteria about p.m.e is created only at car driver's expenses.

Why are there not more sanctions on industrial companies?
Why is the lowering ....

on their way to their jobs

I might have to rely on you

 

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