Posted by mf40-me on November 17, 2007 at 20:04:18 from (216.195.145.137):
In Reply to: diesel gas posted by mf40-man on November 17, 2007 at 16:14:01:
Wow, I have posted questions in the past and nary got a response, but in a couple hours to get this many comments it must be touchy.
Of course i have realized that we have made several diesel vehicles over the years, however i believe that driven largely by the oil companies automakers might have purposely made a subpar offering, to keep americans away from the fuel savings. Most people when asked say they stink, their loud and clunky, or that they never start. I know several people with late model duramax's powerstrokes and cummins that have never had a starting problem.
And of course, i also know that we are playing by another set of regulations with emmisions than the rest of the world is, and to a certain extent this is good, however to ban a car like the vw tdi's and others like it i think is ridiculous. Yes, my emisions are not as good, but 50 plus miles to the gallon cannot be overlooked! (and yes, it was sort of an exageration for the sake of the argument, i have gotten 53.8 mpg, with one particularly good load of fuel on the highway. Normally i get 46/ 50 mpg town/highway summer, and 44/ 48 in the winter)
We have the ability to make great high speed engines, caterpillar and cummins, and now some of our medium and slow speed diesels are getting cleaner.
It just disappoints me that we don't allow, or demand more. Yea, I want that Dodge Cummins, but man what do the people do that pay for them? I have an above average paying job, and i couldn't dream of buying a new one, I suppose you just finance your life away. This of course has nothing to do with the argument.
The clean ones are there, and i think they will be easier than the infrastructure of hydrogen.
Plus, nothing sounds like a 645 series EMD, or a 3406B Caterpillar, or a TM 410 Stork Wartsila, or a screaming 4-53 Detroit, or last but by far not least my own 3-152 Perkins.
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