<VV> re:48 mpg VW diesel...no Corvair

[efki at verizon.net]

The reason that diesel is costs more than the regular is the sulfur removal.
In California the ppm of sulfur has been going down and down. It somewhere
around 7/8 ppm. Before low sulfur was in the 1500 ppm range. By the way
taking all of the sulfur out is on par with taking the lead out of gasoline.

It's smog thing. I don't know how it is in other states, but here in Cal. a
trucker can be cited if they let their semi idle more than 5 min. Hum... I
wonder how the CHP writes all those tickets in rush hour traffic???lol

Eric
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From: ChiefTAM at aol.com
Date: 2007/06/27 Wed AM 09:34:41 CDT
To: mark at noakes.com, virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> re:48 mpg VW diesel...no Corvair

There wasn't a great deal of interest in the VW, but the main reason that  VW
quit bringing them to the US a bit ago was the new 2007 diesel pollution
standards.  Everyone, including MB had to reformulate them for the new
standards
and low sulpher fuel.  It will be great to get them back in the  US market,
with the high fuel prices, maybe all the manufacturers and the  American
public
will catch on.  Of course, with more diesel vehicles, that  will cause the
oil companies to raise the price of diesel even more.  That  I don't
understand,
since diesel costs less to refine than gasoline.  I  owned two VW diesels in
the past, and now diesel trucks.  I would by  another one in a heartbeat,
especially if they bring in the  supercharged/turbocharged models.  A friend
just
bought a new bluetec MB  320 diesel, what a fantastic car and engine, and the
VW Toureg with the V10  turbo diesel would be a great SUV.

Corvair content, at least my Monza gets better mileage than the Powerstroke
F250!

Todd in Texas (Where pickups are King and meant to be  diesel!)



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