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Eastern Europe will be flooded with those cars now. http://www.dw.com/en/germanys-dirty-diesel-cars-en-route-for-eastern-europe/a-40224565 http://www.dw.com/en/

Eastern Europe will be flooded with those cars now. http://www.dw.com/en/germanys-dirty-diesel-cars-en-route-for-eastern-europe/a-40224565 http://www.dw.com/en/germanys-dirty-diesel-cars-en-route-for...

madez 9y ago
The EU comission threatened to fine Germany for the air pollution caused by these cars. I expect they'd treat other EU countries the same.
- bergie 9y ago
  Already happening: > The EU’s top court ruled that Poland has persistently breached European standards on air pollution, which causes nearly 50,000 deaths in the country each year. https://www.ft.com/content/b1d8794a-17d8-11e8-9e9c-25c814761640 https://www.ft.com/content/b1d8794a-17d8-11e8-9e9c-25c814761...
  - kgabis 9y ago
    It's not caused by old cars (for the most part), but rather by people burning cheap coal in inefficient furnaces to keep warm during winter (see "energy poverty").
- kbart 9y ago
  I don't see how that will work in real world. In most Eastern Europe average car is like 15 years old diesel, so these (cheap) semi-new diesels that will go there from Germany will actually be an upgrade.
technofiend 9y ago
Right. Seems like Germany needs a cash for clunkers program like the US had. The best way to guarantee a car not pollute is recycle it into constituent components.
- cheschire 9y ago
  They had one. It was called the Umweltprämie, and was around the same time as "cash for clunkers" https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umweltpr%C3%A4mie https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umweltpr%C3%A4mie
gascan 9y ago
I wonder which ways the prevailing winds blow? (Do they follow the jetstream?) Salt Lake City, Denver, and Los Angeles all suffer significant air pollution from neighboring states and cities- air pollution is a regional, not local, problem. In other words- they ship the cars off, but the pollution could blow right back to them!
- kaybe 9y ago
  West, almost always west. We actually can measure pollution from the US in Europe occasionally, and from China in the US.

madez 9y ago

The EU comission threatened to fine Germany for the air pollution caused by these cars. I expect they'd treat other EU countries the same.

bergie 9y ago
Already happening: > The EU’s top court ruled that Poland has persistently breached European standards on air pollution, which causes nearly 50,000 deaths in the country each year. https://www.ft.com/content/b1d8794a-17d8-11e8-9e9c-25c814761640 https://www.ft.com/content/b1d8794a-17d8-11e8-9e9c-25c814761...
- kgabis 9y ago
  It's not caused by old cars (for the most part), but rather by people burning cheap coal in inefficient furnaces to keep warm during winter (see "energy poverty").
kbart 9y ago
I don't see how that will work in real world. In most Eastern Europe average car is like 15 years old diesel, so these (cheap) semi-new diesels that will go there from Germany will actually be an upgrade.

technofiend 9y ago

Right. Seems like Germany needs a cash for clunkers program like the US had. The best way to guarantee a car not pollute is recycle it into constituent components.

cheschire 9y ago
They had one. It was called the Umweltprämie, and was around the same time as "cash for clunkers" https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umweltpr%C3%A4mie https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umweltpr%C3%A4mie

gascan 9y ago

I wonder which ways the prevailing winds blow? (Do they follow the jetstream?) Salt Lake City, Denver, and Los Angeles all suffer significant air pollution from neighboring states and cities- air pollution is a regional, not local, problem. In other words- they ship the cars off, but the pollution could blow right back to them!

kaybe 9y ago
West, almost always west. We actually can measure pollution from the US in Europe occasionally, and from China in the US.