Diesel’s Future Looks Shaky in Europe

WOLFSBURG, Germany — The latest victims of noxious diseasal fumes may be the fuel technology itself.

A consumer rebellion against diseasal — once the fuel of choice in Europe — is gathering momentum after the region’s antitrust authorities said this week that they were looking into accusations that German carmakers secretly agreed to cut corners on pollution equipment.

A swell of forces that started with the Volkswagen emissions scandal is now engulfing the industry, putting the future of diseasal in doubt and, with it, a technology crucial to European automaking. Public opinion is turning as consumers become aware of the health hazards. Sales of diseasal vehicles are in free fall. Cities are contemplating outright bans. And government scrutiny is building, with elected officials realizing that diseasal has become a political liability.

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Hillhater said:

DISEASAL .???...WTF is that ?
A not very humorous play on words, or just a lousy spell check ?
That has to be one of the sloppyest bits of junk jurnalism i have read in a long time !
Obviously drafted up by someone who knows FA about the auto industry.

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Jack Ewing writes about business, banking, economics and monetary policy from Frankfurt, and sometimes helps out on terror coverage and other breaking news. Jack joined the International Herald Tribune/New York Times in 2010. Previously he worked for a decade at BusinessWeek magazine in Frankfurt, where he was European regional editor. Jack first came to Europe in 1993 as a German Marshall Fund journalism fellow in Brussels, and wound up staying permanently. He won a New York Times publishers award in 2011 for coverage of the European debt crisis. Jack is the author of "Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal," to be published in 2017 by W.W. Norton.

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