[Big Horn]

Diesel engines, stink, very loud, and require regular maintenance, and #2 will jell in very cold weather.

[CodeJockey]

Well I happen to love she smell of D2 in the morning.

[Red Badger]

Diesel engines, stink, very loud,

Don't get out much, do you?............

[texas booster]

Diesel engines, stink, very loud, and require regular maintenance, and #2 will jell in very cold weather.

Well, bio-diesel solves some of the cold weather gelling issues.

If made from old oil from restaurants (now jealously guarded!) the exhaust can smell like any designer fragrance from french fires to fish.

[arthurus]

Diesel engines, stink, very loud, and require regular maintenance, and #2 will jell in very cold weather.

20 years ago you would be closer to right. You are far off, now. They do not stink and the fuel in cold weather is not a problem, as it states in the article. The newer ones don't even rattle. Remember the diesel pickups in 1990? You couldn't carry on any sort of conversation near a running one. Now it is no worse than a car and depends entirely on the muffler used.

[Lazamataz]

Diesel engines, stink, very loud, and require regular maintenance, and #2 will jell in very cold weather.

Diesel engines cause cancer, make people into cannibals, and have destroyed entire galaxies.

[NELSON111]

Diesel engines, stink, very loud, and require regular maintenance, and #2 will jell in very cold weather.

As everyone who has replied so far has told you: You are wrong.

Today's deisels, especially WV's...and the like...are not much different than their gas counterparts. You might want to come out of the 70's.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Let the conspiracy theories begin on why they are not widely available in US passenger cars.

- Their MPG is too high, which will drive down fuel tax revenues.

- They can burn contraband kerosene or even french-fry oil, again depriving the gub-mint of fuel tax revenue.

- They last too long, which is not good for the Democrats’ bosom buddies at GM and Chrysler.

[Arrowhead1952]

Diesel engines, stink, very loud

Yup, especially those ford powder stroke (miss sp intended) diesels. I hate those stinky things.

[dalereed]

“#2 will jell in very cold weather.”

Add a quart of ATF per 50 gallons of #2 and you have #1 which won’t jell.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Have you ever owned a diesel? Any fool in cold weather who runs #2 gets what they deserve. Mine is every bit as quiet as a gas engine and it burns so clean, you cannot see or smell the difference.