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Why not diesel??

08-14-2006, 04:59 AM

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Cummins360

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Why not diesel??

Ok I got a question for everyone, with all the advantages of diesel engines and being that one gallon of diesel fuel has twice the heat energy in it compaired to gasolene (spelling, but for such a discusting word I dont care

) why is it that just about every car sold in the US has a gas engine under the hood???

Is it really because of NOx or just because people dont like the smell or sound of diesel engines???

I just dont understand it, in europe like 50% of all cars sold are diesel so what gives??? I mean gas engines are like dinosaurs compaired with todays modern computerized diesel's. Someone help me out here as to why gas engines are so popular compaired with a much more superior technology

Oh and by the way we can allways grow bio diesel if the world suddenly ran out of oil, so it is a re-newable source of energy to top everything

What gives?!?
-Travis

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