The USA's motor industry really needs to move out of the dark ages.
As I have tried to persuade petrol-head friends in the UK, modern
diesels are responsive, powerful and very very frugal.
Chris
On 5 May 2008, at 15:17, Doug wrote:
> Even with the price difference it is still much cheaper to operate a
> diesel
> truck than a gas truck. Comparing two similar dump trucks the gas
> truck got
> about 7 mi/gal and the diesel gets about 12mi/gal rolling along
> empty or
> lightly loaded ( i.e. 2 ton or less load). The difference is the
> diesel
> engine and overdrive. The rear end ratio is the same since I swapped
> the
> gears out of the gas truck to the diesel.
>
> My next car will be a diesel if I can find one and am willing to
> move out of
> really cheap cars. -Doug
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