How diesel cars are killing us. 20 times more particulates than petrol.
Fri 5:04 am +00:00, 21 Feb 2014 3Frank Kelly is Professor of Environmental Health at King’s College London.
Kelly
It builds on a very large literature which indicates that there is an association between living
Porter
And that increased risk was how much?
Kelly
That increased risk was relatively small, it was the order of between 5 and 10% but it’s still
Porter
Heart attacks are common as well.
Kelly
… there’s 45,000 people die from heart attacks in the UK every year and if we can help that
Porter
So a small increase but in a common thing?
Kelly
Yes, we all have to breathe.
Porter
Looking at the pollutants themselves, I mean with the advent of the catalytic converter of
Kelly
Yes, Europeans have got a great love for the diesel engine because we thought it was a
Porter
And explain what these particles are.
Kelly
So these are small carbon particles, so small you can’t see them. And to try and put that
Porter
Are modern cars with all of the latest emissions are they still producing these particles?
Kelly
Modern cars – they have become cleaner but they haven’t become clean enough. And
Porter
And how are these particles actually harming us?
Kelly
The difference about these modern vehicle exhaust particles are that they’re very small, so
Porter
This new study looked at a link between pollution and heart attack, do we think that these
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Kelly
There are two main theories. One is that yes they are transferring across from the lung into
Porter
What happens to these particles once they come out the back of an exhaust pipe, are they
Kelly
Absolutely. So immediately beside a busy road there’ll be a high concentration of them and
Porter
What about people who are cycling and pedestrians who are commuting, the children who
Kelly
Absolutely, so everything I’ve been talking about so far is to do with concentration of
Porter
What about filtering these particles out? First of all let’s talk about the cyclist then – we see
Kelly
Certainly the relatively cheap disposable masks they will not prevent the particles entering

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Porter
If it’s not practical to wear that sort of mask what would your advice to cyclists be?
Kelly
So unfortunately many of the major cycle routes are along our busiest roads and that’s where
the most pollution is. So there are now apps and maps available which will allow cyclists to
plot their route from A to B by maybe adding two or three minutes to their journey but just going
down some side roads, some back roads, through parks and they’ll have a much pleasanter
experience and they can drop their exposure level to this pollution considerably, I mean many fold.
Porter
And to put diesel cars in context, I mean we haven’t talked about buses and other – the heavy
goods vehicles, but look at the cars – a modern diesel car compared to the equivalent modern petrol car, how clean is petrol now?
Kelly
Very, very clean, the technology for the petrol car has really led to a much improved combustion
of the fuel and as a result some of the new Euro Six petrol engines are producing very, very small
amounts of particles and very, very small amounts of oxides and nitrogen in the gas. If you want
to drop pollution with the technology that’s available at the moment then a small engine petrol
vehicle is ideal.
Porter
Professor Frank Kelly. And don’t think you are protected because you are sitting in a car – most
modern automotive filters are not fine enough to remove diesel particulates, and you are breathing
the same air as the cyclists and pedestrians.






heres an old article but superbly illustrates that the diesel engine run on vegetable oil as designed, is quite safe
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=4791
I’m not so sure about the diesel and petrol bogeyman.
During the mid to later part of the last century (before the chemtrails and depopulation agenda went into overdrive), people who had often smoked high tar/unfiltered cigarettes from an early age were living into their eighties and nineties. Cars did a lot less to the leaded gallon.
Children were growing up in homes where often both parents smoked indiscriminately, and smokeless fuels for heating had yet to be invented.
And yet here we are now, when everything that can be controlled, taxed, filtered and banned has been, and everyone around us is dying of cancer, or so the cancer charidees would have you believe.
And in just the same way the charity industry got the women onboard to collect money for their CE0’s Merc/BMW lifestyles, now its Men UTD against prostrate cancer..but ask the charities if they are trying to find a cure (when we know the PTB’s have them for their own use), and what you’ll get is that the charitees are there to spread “awareness”-yeah right, spread awareness to make more profit for the charity!
Virtually every advert on the “Viper in the Corner” is about some illness, death has become a currency.
Maybe if we all had a bit more sunshine, a bit less doom on the Viper, got out in our cars a bit more into the very countryside the Agenda 21 pervs dont want you visiting, and worried a bit less about existing then we would all live to the ages our parents and grandparents did in the good ol’ days of pollution!
As long ago as the 1960s people were saying diesel fumes were more likely to cause cancer that cigarettes. I don’t think comparisons like that are helpful, but there was an awareness of the risks that was swept under the carpet thanks to the road transport lobby.