This tea bagger wants us to get back on track talking exclusively about our love and respect of Mercedes Diesels. Pretty please?
Thank you.
Ben near
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This is pretty standard Tea Bag koolaid.
Yes, our federal and state government tax fuels. Yes they regulate the quality of fuels. But the ONLY way to justify this kind of selective screed is to ignore the fact that there is a whole world out there beyond our borders, with other nations that also tax all of their fuels and regulate the quality of their fuels.
Our oil companies (multinationals all), sell us the story that they were "forced" to make impossibly clean diesel fuel for the
When we finally switched to ULSD fuel, it was MORE than a decade after Europe started using clean diesel fuel and our ULSD is MUCH higher in sulfur that Europe's clean diesel fuel. And the European fuel is made by exactly the same companies that pretend they can't make it for US!
To buy into this shit is to completely abandon the American tradition of LEADING the world in education and innovation. To many now appear to embrace a practice of ignoring reality and sucking up the PR lies of people and corporations that make billions on public ignorance.
Tom
In a message dated 4/30/2011 2:17:29 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, riker124@earthlink.net writes:
You're correct. With the Clear Act, new regulations on diesel cars made it cost prohibitive, when the prices of the new fuels and new equipment are combined. Even with the extra MPG of a diesel engine you won't make it to the break even point after all the extended costs during the vehicles expected life. . This is not including the increase maintenance requirements. Add in the fact, most states charge of 10% higher tax on diesel than gas, lawmakers have no real goal of making diesel powered attractive.
charges .76/gal tax for diesel. That's 43% higher than the national average. California
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