Originally Posted By howard

What tax breaks? AFAIK there arent any.


Blimey Howard, where have you been hiding ? In 2001 the Labour government promoted the use of diesel cars and introduced a new road tax structure that effectively penalised petrol and favoured diesel.

The result was a massive increase in the number of diesel cars on the road

Unsurprisingly they were more interested in political headlines than real science and the results have got us where we are today.