So THIS is what happens when you allow diesels to dominate a continent?

"Italian town of Vicenza imposes week-long car ban"

The northern Italian town of Vicenza has imposed a week-long total ban on cars at the beginning of February in a major bid to fight pollution, it announced Monday. People in this community of 115,000 will have to use public transport between February 2 and 8, under a new city order.

Exceptions will be police, emergency services, taxis, disabled drivers, people going to weddings or funerals, cars on liquid gas, hybrids and electrically powered vehicles."

See entire story here:

http://www.terradaily.com/2005/05012....bszf34w6.html