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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1036632" data-attributes="member: 14668">Most of the Asian manufacturers also produce diesel cars...but those cars are only available in Europe and Japan. The problem is not the cost of the engines, the problem is the cost of the emissions components that are required to allow such cars to pass unreasonably stringent EPA requirements. So far, only Mercedes Benz and VW/Audi have been willing to jump thru all the necessary (and expensive) hoops, which now involve ultra high-pressure direct injection, urea tanks, Diesel Particulate filters, and computerized post-ignition regen cycles to burn the soot off of those filters. I dont have a problem with requiring such features on large trucks that consume huge amounts of fuel, but it is illogical to effectively eliminate diesel engines from the compact, affordable, hyper-efficient market segment. If a significant portion of the American small-car market was able to use diesel fuel as opposed to gasoline, then those cars would be able to use renewable and domestically-produced biodiesel as opposed to gasoline sourced from imported oil. Every dollar spent on domestically produced renewable fuel is a dollar that stays in our economy instead of being sent overseas.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1036632, member: 14668"] Most of the Asian manufacturers also produce diesel cars...but those cars are [I]only[/I] available in Europe and Japan. The problem is [I]not[/I] the cost of the engines, the problem is the cost of the emissions components that are required to allow such cars to pass unreasonably stringent EPA requirements. So far, only Mercedes Benz and VW/Audi have been willing to jump thru all the necessary (and expensive) hoops, which now involve ultra high-pressure direct injection, urea tanks, Diesel Particulate filters, and computerized post-ignition regen cycles to burn the soot off of those filters. I dont have a problem with requiring such features on large trucks that consume huge amounts of fuel, but it is illogical to effectively eliminate diesel engines from the compact, affordable, hyper-efficient market segment. If a significant portion of the American small-car market was able to use diesel fuel as opposed to gasoline, then those cars would be able to use renewable and domestically-produced biodiesel as opposed to gasoline sourced from imported oil. Every dollar spent on domestically produced renewable fuel is a dollar that stays in [I]our[/I] economy instead of being sent overseas. [/QUOTE]

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