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Originally Posted by etalian
That's what we would hope for, but the article estimated 20% better fuel economy. If the F-150 gets 12 mpg city now, that's only 14.4 mpg in the city with diesel. When you fact in the added price of putting the diesel in the truck and then the price of the diesel fuel itself, are you really getting that much better mileage? Just me thinking out loud...
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The trend is to promote more diesel vehicles because Bio-D made from Algea will be replacing some of our oil imports very soon. But that can not happen untill some ordinary folks trade in there gas guzzler SUVs and buy a light diesel SUV.
15% diesels on the road by 2015 i think is there target. Right now its like 1% of the drivers in america drive a diesel.
They really are banking on making Bio-D from Algea. This Ethinol BS is not panning out so they want to get away from producing fuel from food crops.