Does this mean that most diesel powered vehicles will be slugged??

I doubt it. Diesel cars fall under different emision standards.

I was once pulled over by the DOT for emission testing. When they saw it was a diesel they said ..."off you go and have a good day sir."

"The committee, chaired by Liberal Robyn Parker, urges incentives to encourage more fuel-efficient vehicles, hybrids and alternative fuels."

brilliant - hit those that cant afford a new $50k car with more debt and taxes.. How far away from reality are these bleep in pollys?

The photo looked like a petrol L300. The 4G64 always puffs away like that before it explodes :-)

Interesting, since most modern petrol cars with catalytic converters won't meet emission standards when idling I have been told.
The catalytic convertor needs to be at min temp, such as 400deg C, (some one will correct me here), which does not occur while idling.
So much for all of the concepts behind lead free petrol and less pollution.
Only really good way to get less pollution is to turn off the engine.

So how do you test a Prius for pollution if the engine turns off at idle?
It could be really out of tune, and no one is going to pick it up.

I would agree with that Plodder. Cat converters are platinum based technology that carry out a chemical conversion of gases and liquids. But platinum, based conversion is almost non-existent without some from of heat.

This emission standards and any proposed tarrif has always perplexed me. Say one of us drives vehicle that meets a certain emission standard and you use it every day - to and from work shopping, pick the kids up etc. And you do about 30,000 kms a year in it. And it spends a lot of its time idling in traffic. That's one set of emissions, as no engine gives out ZERO emmissions.

But say I have car that sits on my driveway for 3 weeks at a time, but doesn't meet the emission standards, and does only 10,000 kms a year.That 10,000 kms is mostly high speed road work. That's another set of figures. Which car contaminates the atmosphere more? Yours or mine?

So why should I pay any more than you?

Purely hypothetical, but food for thought.

Bilbo

So many departments, to control a issue as big as this!!.

Asthma foundation.

Chief executive Greg Smith, states extra fine particles from the latest engines are a great concern. WTF now ?? electronics are obvisouly going to improve fuel econemy, less smoke out the pipe, but where is this going to stop?