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Originally Posted by freebeard
there is bio-diesel. I would rank them this way: - Magnetic drive (it's the future)
- Bio fuels, Vodka and hemp oil
- Petroleum based liquids—gas and diesel
- Compressed gases—propane,LNG, and especially hydrogen.
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Why do you list gaseous fuels last? Australia has so much gas (yes really) that we just burn it off as a waste product. We export is to China for $1 a ton.
Diesel is
this close to being 'banned' in all passenger vehicles in the EU and countries that use the EU ratings. With EU6 complexities like Urea post treatment (I don't know how much it adds to a cars purchase price but it also adds about 10% to your fuel cost - as well as reliability issues - Google 'Adblue problems') are going to force diesels out of the smallest cars, and EU7 will force diesel out of bigger cars until only the vehicles that need to be diesel are left.
Let's not forget that if diesel were taxed the same a petrol in Europe, passenger car diesels would have never been developed in the first place.