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You get what you incentivize.

Europe chose to levy big fuel taxes and punitive displacement taxes. Diesel cars are some of the best when it comes to driving experience and fuel economy for a given displacement. What followed was perfectly predictable.

The road to hell is paved with public policy implemented with willful ignorance to obvious 2nd order effects.



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