Re: Diesel fuel/trucks

Posted by john in la on May 02, 2005 at 13:03:11 from (68.222.53.12):

In Reply to: Re: Diesel fuel/trucks posted by Coloken on May 02, 2005 at 11:04:58:

As Jay said it is not the fuel that is going to kill our mileage it is the engines.

The EPA said we need to reduce emissions so they went to truck/car manufactures and said we want emissions this low by this time. They tried converters in the exhaust to different turbos just like they did years ago with gas engines.

The truck manufactures did what they could with the fuel that was available. In 2005 we had to take a big cut in emissions and that is why we lost 1 mpg on all 2005 trucks. I personally was getting 7.5 mpg out of a 2001 but my new 2005 only gets 6.6 mpg. (same kind of truck; same load)

The truck manufactures then said it is time for the oil companies to step up to the plate and reduce emissions with the fuel so they came up with Ultra Low diesel. This Ultra Low will not reduce mpg but it has got to cost more to pay for all the new refining equipment needed.

In 2007 they will change the engines again to only burn Ultra Low Diesel. (same as cars now only burn unleaded) They expect these new engines to get 5% less fuel mileage.

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• Re: Diesel fuel/trucks Ludwig 16:06:46 05/02/05 (0)
• Re: Diesel fuel/trucks Coloken 13:31:44 05/02/05 (0)

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