[BC] Gas Prices

[Sid Schweiger]

>>Dunno if they've improved them since the 80s, but diesels have lots of

drawbacks too...sluggish acceleration and they don't start well when 
cold.<<

Neither one of those is true anymore.  Diesel engine technology has
improved greatly, especially in the last decade.  Diesels are extremely
popular in Europe, where the price of gasoline is several times what it
is in the US.  Diesel engines also tend to last far longer than their
equivalent gasoline engines (ask any long-haul trucker...half a million
miles on an engine is common), and diesels can produce more torque than
an gasoline engine of the same displacement.

One current drawback for those in the US who want a diesel is that
diesel-engine passenger cars cannot be sold in California and the four
other states which use California emission standards, because the
current high-sulfur diesel fuel does not meet the California requirement
for particulate emissions.  Low-sulfur diesel fuel will be mandated by
law in, IIRC, 2006, and the vehicles will once again be made available
nationwide.



Sid Schweiger
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