None are being sold in California or in several other states that
have adopted California standards because of the emissions
requirements. Right now diesel fuel costs substantially more than
gasoline. We have never had access to diesel cars with a pretense of
performance. That would be nice.
Winsor
Long Beach, CA
USA
On Sep 26, 2006, at 11:10 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
>
> A bit like the Emperor's New Clothes, in other words ... ;-)
>
> I am completely sold on diesel, Winsor. My little Beemer still
> impresses me with its performance, despite my watching the average
> fuel consumption readout and driving for economy.
>
> Chris
> On 26 Sep 2006, at 18:51, Winsor Crosby wrote:
>
>> I am reminded of a question posed by someone once that went something
>> like this: You mean to say that you are going to take my gallon of
>> gas that will take me 40 miles in my comfortable little car and you
>> are going to carry it, using fossil fuels, to a fossil fuel power
>> plant hundreds of miles away, burn it to generate electricity with
>> the losses in that process, transport the electricity over electrical
>> lines with those losses back to where it will be used, convert the
>> electricity to chemical energy by charging a battery with those
>> attendant losses, converting the chemical energy back to electricity
>> with those losses, turning an electric dynamo in the the car with
>> those efficiency losses to accelerate a heavier car designed to carry
>> a thousand pounds of batteries with those losses and improve on my
>> efficiency? How much energy to recycle the batteries? It is difficult
>> not to be skeptical of everything when electric automobiles have
>> already failed. The whole system has to be engineered.
>>
>> Yesterday Honda announced a diesel engine design they say is as clean
>> as gasoline engine.
>>
>
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