"RAM³" wrote:

The tendency of the U.S. government and people to blame the
problems they themselves first create and then perpetuate on
outside and malignant forces are reaching bazaar and dangerous
levels not seen since the last "witch hunt." As Julius Caesar
says in Shakespear's play "The fault lies not in the stars, dear
Brutus, but in ourselves."

Yabut have any of these been Blessed by the EPA?

As I understand the situation, the stumbling block to wider use of
diesel vehicles in the US is getting the sulphur out of the fuel. I have
read that the transport industry is fighting the removal quite actively
as they are concerned that they will have shortened life of their
injector pumps. In turn, some of the auto maker will not put their
vehicles into the marketplace as there are concerns about the high
sulphur diesel causing problems with, among other things, emissions
control equipment.

Canada has been running low sulphur fuel for quite a while, and there
is a move to set levels even lower.

To judge from the number of posts to some of the diesel forums, esp.
Volkswagen related ones, there are a fair number of VW diesels bing sold
in the US, though there does not seem to be the acceptance in the market
that they find elswhere. As many of them are posting from California, I
would have to figure that the cars are meeting some emissions standards,
unless there are exemptions for diesel vehicles.

My read on the story is that the reporter is one of those half retarded
souls that can barely figure out how a toaster works, and that he/she/it
is shocked that a bunch of guys that get poor grades in academic classes
should somehow be able to make something of themselves. A bit insulting,
really.

Cheers
Trevor Jones