[Yo-Yo]

Maybe I've been sniffing Diesel fumes. Let's try again:

What about this CARB study that says clean Diesel produces fewer emmissions than CNG?

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

The whole reason for running diesel engines in the first place is POWER. The torq delivered in a diesel cannot be duplicated by a gas engine. Which spells towing capability. It is not horsepower that gets that 60,000 pound load to the top of the mountain, it is Torq that does that. And diesel engines are the only means to produce that kind of torq in an extremely efficient form.

Diesels deliver over 3 times the torq of a gas engine; Especially NG engines. That is because of the combustible nature of paraffin based fuel. (Cetane ratings)

This whole hype will prove to be a great error.

[Razzz42]

Europeans have proven diesel technology but you have to pay such a large premium to get a diesel vehicle from overseas in the States, that it is cost prohibitive, like there something evil about the latest diesel technology (only that it would be competitive).

In the meantime, diesel driven trucks and tractors supply the US with whatever they need and make the world go round.

Nothing wrong with natural gas either (except it’s competitive).

[Errant]

Fossil Fuel Emission Levels - Pounds per Billion Btu of Energy Input

Pollutant	Natural Gas	Oil	Coal
Carbon Dioxide	117,000	164,000	208,000
Carbon Monoxide	40	33	208
Nitrogen Oxides	92	448	457
Sulfur Dioxide	1	1,122	2,591
Particulates	7	84	2,744
Mercury	0.000	0.007	0.016