Dave wrote:
: We certainly are in that regard. AOPA periodically informs us of the
: situation
: you guys face there and in Europe and works very hard to keep it from
: happening
: here.
:
: 80% of the amount we pay is taxation

As unpopular (and thus practically impossible) to do here,
gasoline *should* be taxed much more than it is. Of course, this money
should go to research for alternate fuels, etc, and not blown in a general
fund for more B.S. spending.

The aerodiesels seems to be promising. Fuel burn, power/weight
improvements, and turbocharging make them look great for performance. In
the US where 100LL and Jet-A are roughly the same price, running
auto-diesel would as good of a cost-savings as autogas STCs. Also,
compression ignition engines are more robust to fuels, so I'd imagine less
concern about fuel quality than with autogas I can imagine they'll be
*really* great across the pond for you guys by the liter, er, litre...

-Cory


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