What Would It Take for YOU to buy a diesel car?

Replying to: steve_ (Dec 16, 2008 10:18 am)

To me the unsaid or sound of one hand clapping, is that new "higher mpg" standards might be put on hold indefinitely. It makes no financial sense to totally stop manufacturing SUV's: ie., 20-30 year phase out. They are also loathed to approve, invest, make and deploy a series 1,150,1500 V-5- 6-8 turbo diesels !! .
 
I think we are in for SOS DD ! Despite the bru ha ha about better mpg standards global warming/ climate change; i.e., winter, spring, summer, fall, as it has always been called) RUG to PUG is THE order of the realm ! Return to single digit year over year growth in consumption world wide is almost a slam dunk.
 
So as a result (my .02 cents) two markets segments that might make sense:
 
1. American SUV's Trucks with under invoice pricing, .09% financing, tax credits and vouchers. If you do 12-15kmiles per year, essentially you control cost vs use metrics.
 
2. Diesel cars that actually will hit the US market. VW Jetta TDI indeed has a modest tax credit, ala hybrid tax credits do.
 
So for example like model VW's 24/34 mpg per mile driven .0704 RUG/.0703 D2 is PAR(1.69/RUG/2.39 D2). SO do you think the RUG to PUG to D2 prices will remain low and go lower? I will let the doubters do the math at 4 per gal.

Exxon Is Spending $1 Billion to Increase Diesel Pollution.
 
Oops, minor typo there.
 
"Expanding its output of lower-emission fuel, Exxon Mobil Corp. said it would spend more than $1 billion to increase diesel production at two Gulf of Mexico refineries and a third in Belgium."
 
Exxon Is Spending $1 Billion to Increase Diesel Production (WSJ)

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Replying to: ruking1 (Dec 16, 2008 5:26 pm)

Oh, I should have said it's top in the search list (because of the time stamp I think). Give it an hour or two, and it'll drop down.
 
Three weeks from now someone will complain that they want to read that story and none of my links will work.
 
And yeah, it won't surprise me if the Gulf refineries send the diesel to the EU or somewhere other than the US.

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Hopefully it does not affect the price of diesel until I get my new diesel SUV. Then they can sell diesel for half the price of gas and I will be smilin'

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