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Originally Posted by russotto
But the nasty high-mileage diesels Europeans like? Not likely, particularly since diesel prices shoot through the roof in winter.
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Times are a changing -
common rail diesels give performance, economy and lower emissions. I ran a gulf TDi for four years - drove like a petrol/gasoline-engined car but returned between 50 and 60 mpg average depending upon driving conditions. Don't see greatly fluctuating diesel prices over here - guess yours are geared to light heating oil (gasoil - same product as diesel). Incidently the old faithful Passat mentioned before runs gasoline.
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As for alternative fuels, I've been hearing about most of the since the 70's, and nothing has come of them. I won't believe in them until they are benchmarks on the commodities exchanges.
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Think you will wait a long time for these to be quoted as benchmarks - most crude/ petroleum hedges are OTC trades with only a few grades like WTI and Brent on crude and NYMEX Gasoil (European barge market), and SIMEX Heavy Fuel Oil (Singapore bunker market) on products having the volume and liquidity to warrant exchange-based trading