Volkswagen Touareg BlueTDI – World Premiere of the Clean High-Tech Diesel

VW leading the way.

Wrong on all accounts. You can say that the United States has substandard emmisions. The average American vehilce produces about DOUBLE the C02 of a European one. The only real difference is Nox.

BTW, ULSD is available RIGHT NOW.

Second fact, diesel has about 10% more energy per liter. It is denser but doesn't requite any more oil for the same amount of energy.

Can't wait until it gets here because the current V10 TDI Touareg while awesome is on the expensive side.

BTW, huu76 your Jeep is much dirtier than this VW TDI, you should be ashamed of yourself for driving one of the dirtiest new vehicles as rated by the EPA.

Huu 76, wots your problem man you have something against diesels?..And for the luv of God at least do your homework before putting ure finger on the key board..You're consistently typing crap

It takes LESS oil to make diesel. The Alaskan crude is pumped straight into the trucks in the oil-field. Dirty oils (such as Venezuelan) require refining, but it is still an efficient process, especially compared to gas production.

But how do you make gas?
You take the crude, transport it across the country to huge refineries in New Jersey (that consumed vast amounts of energy to build) and then you break the heavy oil into lighter, more volatile gasoline.
How do you break it down?
In the cracking tower with the addition of heat.
Where does the heat come from?
From burning more crude oil.

So, Gas is similar to Diesel, except for the additional transportation, multi-billion dollar refineries, burning more oil to crack the oil molecules, and then transporting back from the refinery. Each step consumes money and/or oil that isn't consumed in diesel production.

So, explain to me how you use use up all that oil to make gas (an operation called subtraction) and end up with MORE in the end!

This additional expense to make gas is precisely why gas costs MORE than diesel everywhere in space and time, except for the last couple of years in North America, where the gas companies are scared sh**less that the high cost of fuel will drive consumers to buy vehicles using not just lower-cost diesel, but a lot less of it due to higher efficiencies.

Here's another math challenge. If consumers switch to fuel that costs 1/2 as much per gallon, and their new diesel vehicle burns 1/2 as many gallons, what happens to sales? Down 75% to 1/4 what they were.
THAT is why you have a conspiracy to artificially jack diesel prices. To keep you from buying sensible vehicles.

The sooner that the DOJ jails the top execs at the oil companies and gets Diesel pricing back to where it belongs, the sooner we get away from needing any Arab oil.
Its so simple, yet the oil-companies spend huge $$$ on a FUD campaign so they can brainwash idiots who can't do even the simplest math (not mentioning any names, huu76)

I apologize for the insults. I am so frustrated that the oil companies are taking the extra costs of the infrastructure and operations for refining gas, and moving thoes costs from the price of gas onto the diesel users, and I'm paying for them.

Fortunately, my VW TDI (that my son now drives) only needs to get the tank filled about 8x per year, so the cost of fuel is insignificant. (I filled it yesterday with B20 -- last fillup was mid January)

But its still a crime to make the environmentally conscious diesel buyer pay for the infrastructure to make gasoline for the other drivers.

Plus, ALL goods are transported by truck or train. Whenever diesel prices go up, you pay more for everything, from apples to antibiotics. Even your gas-electric hybrid vehicles are transported to the dealer on diesel powered trucks, because its still the most efficient method available.

I apologize for the insults. I am so frustrated that the oil companies are taking the extra costs of the infrastructure and operations for refining gas, and moving thoes costs from the price of gas onto the diesel users, and I'm paying for them.

Fortunately, my VW TDI (that my son now drives) only needs to get the tank filled about 8x per year, so the cost of fuel is insignificant. (I filled it yesterday with B20 -- last fillup was mid January)

But its still a crime to make the environmentally conscious diesel buyer pay for the infrastructure to make gasoline for the other drivers.

Plus, ALL goods that you buy are transported by truck or train. Whenever diesel prices go up, you pay more for everything, from apples to antibiotics. Even your gas-electric hybrid vehicles are transported to the dealer on diesel powered trucks, because its still the most efficient method available.

Funny how you can read absurd BS about oil costing less to make from oil than a synthetic fuel called gasoline, but you can't read a simple explanation of why that is not physically or economically feasible.

And diesel is not subsidized anywhere in the world. Gasoline is the only subsidized fuel, and only in the US. Why would someone subsidize a processed product when the raw materials work better?

huu76
That article about diesel that you quote is a few years old.
And it wasn't even based on current data when it was written.
It writes off diesels because of "soot" ... but modern diesels don't produce soot at all.
It looks like something funded by the gasoline-promoting oil companies.
Smells a lot like those "independant studies" showing Windows costs less than Linux, even after the whole infrastructure of the Internet and 99% of server farms have switched to Linux because no-one can afford the purchase costs or down-time associated with Microsoft's inferior offerings.
And it always comes out that Microsoft paid for the research.

So, how many hundreds of hours did it take to find the 1 article contemptable of diesel technology?
Your time must not be worth much.

Diesel is successful in Europe (just like the rest of the planet) because the cars offer better performance and value, and there aren't as many boneheads like you who know nothing about cars. They take their cars seriously, and aren't as swayed by marketing campaigns.