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ah yes, the 'it's clean diesel so if you're driving further distances it's better' bullshit that ushered in dieselgate.
VW et al convinced fucktons of normally sensible people to pour yet more and worse shit into the atmosphere for over a decade.
Dieselgate was later. not that diesel was clean, but in 2005, my car met all emissions regulations at the time without cheating.
I almost fell for it before that while debacle hit.