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Diesels Rule!
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Ken Freund

I’ve always been crazy about anything with an engine.

After years of pestering my father, he finally let me drive a car - at nine years of age. At 14 I taught myself to drive stick shifts and then how to ride motorcycles. Later, I also learned to fly and have had my pilot’s license for 22 years. Working on, riding, driving, restoring, photographing and writing about all these wonderful machines has always been my passion. I've been an auto vo-tech and smog test instructor, certified master technician, vehicle inspector, shop foreman, service manager, service director, and shop owner. Over the years I’ve owned about 35 bikes and 50 cars and trucks, a lot of which I wish I had never sold!

 
By Ken Freund
Published on 01/26/2008
 
A recent study by the Rand Corporation, a non-profit research organization, found that light trucks and autos powered by advanced diesel technology or hybrid technology can provide larger societal benefits than traditional gasoline-powered automobiles.

John Graham, dean of the Pardee Rand Graduate School and senior author of the research paper said: “Advanced diesel and hybrid technologies show very well in this study, in terms of benefits to the individual and society overall,” Graham said: “E85 (85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline) simply doesn't provide the same benefits.”

The research examines the benefits and costs of three alternatives to the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine for the period between 2010 and 2020: gasoline-electric hybrid technology, advanced diesel technology, and dual-fuel vehicles that are powered continuously by E85.

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