Shagoneer wrote:66stepside wrote:
On another note, what’s the story on the diesel they’re going to use? Good, bad, marginal- or??
This is mostly because I live in a farming town and deal with work trucks all the time, but in my opinion a diesel is only worthwhile if it says CUMMINS in big letters on the side.
Yeah, I'm sorry to be a Debby downer, but there will never be another "good diesel", and it is by necessity. I remember my dads old square dodge Ram250, in green and tan with the old cummins. I called it "The Duck Truck" because is was duck's unlimited colors and the exhaust sounded like it was quacking (quack-quack-quack). I loved that truck, there wasn't a stump it couldn't pull and it could go from Grand Junction to Salt Lake City and back and still drive around for another week before needed to top off the tank.
But in the big picture, we all share the same air. I can buy a wrench and be buried with it, but when I take a breath, as soon as I exhale it belongs to everyone else again. Diesel exhaust is worse than gas exhaust, it makes way more soot and ozone which are not only worse to breath, but are heavy and hang out down at ground level where us people are instead of floating up into the stratosphere where UV can break it down. Diesels haven't been regulated as hard as gassers because commerce relies on Diesel. The vast majority of people can walk, ride a bike, or take mass transit to where they need to be (even though we don't want to), but all those semis, locomotives, and ocean liners need to keep moving, so diesel hasn't been choked as bad, but now that's changing. Technology is trying to keep up, with exhaust fluids and catalytic converters, but other technologies are advancing faster. Locomotives are due for a renaissance, with the decline of coal they're looking for cargo and the technology already exists to take them off fossil fuels (although not yet cost effective). Autonomous vehicles are going to replace truck drivers before we know it, so nobody will notice when long haul logistics gets off the interstates and back onto the rails.
The point being, as diesel becomes less and less necessary, it's negative effects become less and less bearable. If you want a Jeep with a "good ol' diesel", about all you can do is what Jaber is doing.