tdi-rick
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Yeah, but their logic is flawed. Maybe not, I haven't found much logic in their decisions.
They cut the mileage in half on diesels trying to get the exhaust a little cleaner. Most folks aren't driving less, just burning more fuel. Sounds to me like they're defeating their purpose.
Making everyone in the country comply to rules made for big cities would be like making all the speed limits in the country 30 mph because that's what they are in the city.
Andy
The milage thing surprises me, here the vehicles are getting cleaner and going further or at least matching the previous model on fuel economy with each model update and change in diesel regs.
Petrol cars are going further on a tank too.
All the small diesels here now have to be equivalent to Euro IV compliant, which means particulate traps, etc. and the big Euro diesels are using traps, etc and have to run low SAPS oils, although the US engines dominate interstate haulage here, often being B-Doubles or bigger out west.