New pollution charge starts in London though - Aston and Aero OK so is the E-Type and any car covered by the tax exemption. The Ferrari and Golf are not as they fall into the zone between 'old' and 'new' cars. Not that I'm planning to drive them in the zone.
From the BBC News: Somewhat driven by the scare story that Air pollution cuts short 40,000 lives a year in the UK. It's a statistical construct not a count of actual deaths. There is no question that air pollution, caused by many factors, is a serious health problem but it's difficult to assess its precise impact.
It is not possible to count the number of people who have died early as a result of pollution because nobody has air pollution written as the cause of death on their death certificates.
This means that comparisons between numbers of people killed by air pollution and, for example, tuberculosis or malaria are generally bogus.
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