WOULD it not be healthier for everybody if the price of diesel was put up to about £3 a litre?
Maybe if it was, the drivers of diesel-engined vehicles would find out how to turn the engines off.
It's quite noticeable, when one visits places where buses park at termini for 10 minutes or so, that it's beyond the driver's capability to turn the engine off.
The same applies to milkmen.
We have one who delivers to five or six houses and the driver takes milk to each, returning to the vehicle after each delivery.
This takes five or six minutes, yet the engine's left running all the time.
Even private motorists with diesel vehicles seem incapable of turning the engine off when calling at the newsagents for their morning paper.
It never happens with those who drive petrol-fuelled vehicles.
PJ MAYNE,
Hanley Castle,
Worcs
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