"Dylan Smith" wrote in message
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In article , Matt Barrow wrote:
It's much easier to convert the diesel infrastructure to use
non-crude oil based fuel than it is to move to a hydrogen economy.

Hmmm...a series of tests by the Univeristy of Colorado a few years ago
indicated the a HUGH proportion of pollution comes from diesels.

That's why there are strict emissions standards for diesel engines in
cars here. You can *see* the smoke from trucks in the US, typically the
~17 tonner fixed body four axle construction trucks which seemed to make
up 75% of the truck population in Houston.

Quite! In many states they emmission test the newer vehicles but exempt
older (1981 +/- or earlier) and diesels.

Every time they accelerated
there was a *thick* pall of black smoke. Those trucks wouldn't be
allowed on the roads here.

Faulty/untuned injectors. My neighbors Dodge 3500 (?) dually makes not even
a wisp of smoke.