Car industry being disingenuous - Sector pleas are so self-serving

Lobbies promote specific interests; they are not plain dealers. Sometimes they advocate interests counter to the common good. The tobacco lobby was an example. There are others.

The Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI) yesterday released a statement that suggests the organisation may have fallen into that category. It pointed out that over the last three years we imported 150,000 cars that do not meet the latest EU emission standards, which “means Ireland has become the dumping ground for older cars”.