Diesel exhaust is more toxic (its carcinogenic) than gasoline engine exhaust.

- Mark

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> On Oct 15, 2019, at 1:48 PM, Willie via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 10/15/19 3:19 PM, Jan Steinman via EV wrote:
>>> From: paul dove <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
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>>> I doubt this is true. My little car will go 81 miles on the electricity 
>>> from a diesel generator burning 1.6 gallons of diesel.? I doubt I could 
>>> drive 81 miles in a diesel version of this car on 1.6 gallons that would be 
>>> 50mpg.
>> Our diesel Jetta gets 50 mpg.
> 
> Yes, that was common with early VW diesels.  Early 1990s?  Our Golf TDI used 
> to regularly do 50 mpg and up to 55 if driven carefully.  It was hard for me 
> to believe that such little fuel consumption could have been much of a 
> pollution concern when compared to 10-15 mpg gasoline cars. No matter how 
> clean they were.
> 
> It is not clear what we are talking about though.  Surely the bus would not 
> do miles on 1.6 gallons worth of diesel generator charge?  No matter, the 
> diesel generator charging must have been an emergency.
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