Comments on: And the winner is...diesel?

Talk all you want about ethanol and hydrogen, the car industry seems to have already picked its "alternative" fuel.

[Mr. Dogers2U]

Typical of CNET, can't spell

Diesel uses a capital "D" as it is named after Rudolph Diesel and
therefore a proper noun.

[Hep Cat]

This is her fourth story in the past few weeks...

That misspells Diesel.

But what the hell. She's only the automotive writer for C|net.

My dog needs a job - maybe he should apply at C|net as a pet food
correspondent.

[Hep Cat]

Makes you wonder...

Is there a style guide at C|Net?

It's a simplistic look at Diesel tech, but there's really no excuse for
not doing the basic research - which should include the fact that
Rudolph Diesel developed the compression ignition engine that still
bears his name.

They manage to get Internet right....

[Hep Cat]

And by the way...

Audi won in 2006 and 2007 with Diesel-powered R10 race cars.

This year the rules were changed to shrink the Diesel-powered
cars' fuel tanks to offset their greater fuel economy, and the cars
still finished 1-2.

[candacelombardi]

Check out the link

You are correct on both points.
From within this story, I linked to my earlier blog on this very topic.
You can find it here:
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9730782-7.html

Thanks,
Candace

[Matthew Hurst]

Emmisons NOT the problem. How soon we forget...

Diesel cars have remained popular all over the world. In many
places like Europe, emisson standards are high if not higer than
our own? so why have half of the cars (in some areas) been
powered by Diesel engines? The problems with Diesels in the US
lays solely with the big three-Their Diesel engines were AWLFUL
JUNK! In cases like GM they retrofitted gas engines to make
Diesel ones-so prone to failure they replaced then with gas
engines in some models. They did not put the time and energy
into developing proper Diesel engines and doomed their
popularity for the next two decades. Even when the big three
started to make full sized Diesel pick ups available as in recent
years, they rightly went outside their own companies to source
the required engines and expertise (i.e. Cummins). Emissions
were not the problem-building junk was!

[William Crow]

The smaller diesel auto.

With equivalently sized diesels putting out less green house
gases than the Prius, maybe now the self-proclaimed
'E'nviromentalists (capital E) will be forced to consider an auto
with even lower emmisions.
And with the bogus nature of man-made global warming being
slowly revealed - see article in this months Discover magazine -
perhaps the righteous reasons of simply cleaner air and saving
money in this era of rising oil costs will be enough.
Isn't it strange that after 3-4 decades of realizing that oil prices
would continue to increase, we've finally come to the long
predicted crossover point where the increased cost of efficiency
technology will pay off in the wallet.
Those that fell hook, line and sinker for the religeous tenents of
an Environmental religion may at some point be willing to see
themselves as dupes. And as such may not have the ability to
critically think well enough to participate in political movements
and elections.
But some nuts are hard to crack.

I'm just hoping the hydraulic hybrid works out. Link it to a
diesel and we could really save some money without high tech
eldectronics as a requirement.

Working toward simplicity.

As they said in the movie...FREEDOM!

[William Crow]

This just in...

Get a piece of paper and make a long list of those that are present
hardheads on the man-made global warming issue. In the future
when they express an opinion, on anything, remind them of what
they once believed in.

Another must-see link...

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/comment/
story.html?id=597d0677-2a05-47b4-b34f-b84068db11f4&p=4