On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Keith Addison wrote:
> I get the sense things are changing somewhat with diesels anyway, > there seems to be some movement, some momentum gathering. For > instance, Kerry's rather mild pro-diesel stance got his fingers > burnt, yet Dingell can try to push a bill through now? Okay, I don't > know much about US politics, but doesn't that show some movement? Yes, getting Dingell onboard the diesel bandwagon should be a big plus. Getting (i.e. forcing) oil companies to start selling ULSD (ultra low sulfur diesel) in the US should really have an impact that will fortunately help out biodiesel. Most US automakers currently do make some nice diesel engines - but they only sell them in Europe. Part of that is simply because many americans still picture diesels as noisy, dirty engines that won't work at all in cold weather. It was a ride in a VW TDI that convinced Dingell that that was not true. A big part of getting diesels to start becoming more mainstream will just be the public learning that there have been advances in diesel engine technology, and when run on ULSD (or preferably biodiesel), they don't have the "big black cloud" effect anymore. Mike ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Plan to Sell a Home? http://us.click.yahoo.com/J2SnNA/y.lEAA/MVfIAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
