Nothing like slaying a sacred cow to get the old pharts all fired up.
Something that's often missed when comparing diesel and gas mileage is the different energy content of the two fuels. A diesel has to beat gasoline mpg by about ten percent just to "break even". That and the corresponding difference in fuel prices eliminate much of the diesel advantage.
As far as torque versus rpm, it's easier to build a gas engine with high low-end torque than it is to build a diesel that will rev up to gas engine speeds. So you need to couple a diesel engine to a transmission with a lot of gears to take advantage of that torque.
BTW, why is it that diesel pickup owners insist on letting their engines idle when they go into the store to buy a pack of cigarettes? Are they really that hard to get restarted? And why, even if they eventually shut the thing down, do they insist on letting it idle for ten minutes in the parking lot? I assume they're compensating for some undersized part of their anatomy, since there's no other reason to make people around you smell and hear your diesel engine clattering away.
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Today's Featured Article - Madison's County - by Anthony West. Philip Madison has been a good friend of mine for quite some time. He has patiently suffered my incessant chit chat on the subject of tractors for longer than I care to remember, and on many occasions he has put himself out, dropped what ever it was he was doing, to come and lend a hand cranking handles, or loading a find onto a trailer. Although he himself has never actually owned or restored a tractor, he was always enthusiastic and always around helping with other peoples projects.
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