[Still OT] New Diesel (was: Quite OT: NYTimes.com Article: TVAds Say S.U.V. Owners Support Terrorists)

[mvanamburgh@charter.net (Mike VanAmburgh)]

There was a good article on diesel power in AutoWeek mag a couple weeks 
ago.

<http://www.autoweek.com/search/search_display.mv?port_code=autoweek&cat_code=coverstory&content_code=04795232&Search_Type=STD&Search_ID=897104&record=3>

Mike

Decker wrote:
> Hi Brad and Dave;
> 
>      One thing we all should remember is that without diesel fuel our
> country will wither up and die in a few months. I drive truck in the summer
> time and 14.7 litres of Cat turbo diesel power delivers the goods. Almost
> everything we use has been in a diesel powered truck at sometime. I drive my
> 1981 Turbo diesel Rabbit pickup and when the price of diesel rises much
> above gas one thing is for sure it will soon be pretty much on par. We may
> not get all the diesel cars we would like imported into this country but
> there will still be diesel for those of us the drive diesel cars and trucks.
> I was in England recently and the VW model I saw most frequently was the TDI
> Passat. 25 % of the new cars sold in England today are diesels.
> Brian Decker
> 1981 Rabbit turbo diesel pickup
> 1979 Scirocco
> 1980 Dasher diesel SW
> ETC
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brad Sterling" <bgsterling@earthlink.net>
> To: "Rabbit16v" <Rabbit16v@attbi.com>; "Scirocco List"
> <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 10:08 AM
> Subject: [Still OT] New Diesel (was: Quite OT: NYTimes.com Article: TV Ads
> Say S.U.V. Owners Support Terrorists)
> 
> 
> 
>><snip Dave>
>>Actually, I don't mind paying extra for fuel and, for the most part, I
>>believe our low costs are the result of the gas sucking vehicle we see on
>>the roads now but if we were to get the cleaner diesel over here my point
>>was that we would probably be paying considerably more for it.
>><end snip>
>>
>>Dave,
>>You may be right, but time will tell.  US federal law will mandates a new,
>>cleaner diesel standard by 2006 (like 15 ppm of sulfur compared to today's
>>300 ppm).  Stricter standards are on their way in 2009 that will bring us
> 
> in
> 
>>line with Europe.  I believe one of the arguments is that even if diesel
>>were to cost the same or more than gas, you get more miles to the gallon.
>>Therefore, cost per mile is still lower.  Again, I don't claim to know
>>nuthin' 'bout no diesels, but this is what I've read.
>>
>>- Brad
>>'86.5 Volkswagen Scirocco 16v
>>'76 International Scout II
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