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On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:22:33 +0200, Martin Hotze
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ah, the old myth again. don't compare your US diesels with our diesels.
sure, the technical principles always stay the same, but there is a big
difference at the end.

The diesels sold in the U.S. are the same as those sold in Europe,
assuming that's what you mean by yours and ours. This is a global
economy. And there isn't a whole lot of difference in the end:
particulates, especially. Diesels today are certainly a huge
improvement over the clanking Mercedes of yesteryear, but they are
still pretty smelly. And Diesel fuel costs more than gasoline at the
local pump, also a big change from yesteryear. This will only get
worse as their ratio in the fleet increases.

(One reason gas in the U.S. is so cheap--and it is cheap, even though
it has doubled in the past couple of years--is that the Europeans have
so thoroughly switched over to diesel that they have gasoline to
export. A lot of New England's gasoline comes from Holland. Thanks,
guys!)



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WRONG WRONG WRONG!

Diesel fuel costs much less than gasoline in Europe.

The reason American gasoline is cheap is because Congree is too
chicken**** to raise fuel taxes to fix the hemorraging budget deficit.
Seems odd for a war over oil. Or was it WMDs or freedom? I forget...

Euro diesels are light years beyond US diesels as a result of low sulfur
fuels and advanced fuel injection (common rail) systems. Operating at
pressures that would explode the American-style dielsel fuel pump, these
engines are nearly free of diesel clatter and typically perform better
in terms of fuel economy and acceleration than their gasoline
counterparts. Low sulfur diesel fuel is a requirement as the sulfuric
acid is quite corrosive to the pump and injector and any catalysts
needed to clean up the exhaust.