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To: wolf78

I still think diesel is the way to go, if memory serves isn’t there almost 10X the energy in diesel fuel than in gasoline per volume?


8 posted on 07/14/2008 6:20:50 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Abathar

No...it’s about 1.3x. But I agree that diesel engines are superior. They are also inherently fuel-flexible.


11 posted on 07/14/2008 6:24:40 AM PDT by B Knotts (Calvin Coolidge Republican)
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if memory serves

I think your memory is faulty, by several times. There is considerable difference between gasoline and diesel fuel and there there is considerable difference between a gasoline engine and a diesel engine.

67 posted on 07/14/2008 10:52:30 AM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, Trust few, and always paddle your own canoe)
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