On Sat, 20 May 2006 07:56:42 +0000 (UTC), Cydrome Leader
wrote:

Larry Jaques wrote:
On Fri, 19 May 2006 01:44:48 +0000 (UTC), with neither quill nor
qualm, Cydrome Leader quickly quoth:

I found it interesting everybody makes diesel engines, you just won't find
them in the US or in their US site. Honda seems to have a line called GD
or something like that that looks like the GX gas series. I only see them
on the uk and canadian sites.

Why is diesel so unpopular here in the US compared to the rest of the
world?

BEs rule here. Brainless Environmentalists. They look at particulate
smoke being sent out of a poorly maintained diesel truck exhaust stack
and think it's somehow 1,000 times worse than the low-rider belching
oil smoke, CO, NOx, RAP and 9mm lead slugs.

Only US made ones. It was pointed out to me you don't see black clouds
coming from foreign made diesel trucks. It seems to hold true.

Mabee today, but I've seen enough smoky M.A.N,Leyland, Dubkrava,
Mercedes, Peugot and Duetz (as well as a polethora of other makes in
both east and west africa) diesel exhausts that were extremely black
and foul.

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