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Opinion - USA - Diesels Under Pressure
Under the hood, Europe and America take different roads
New York,NY,USA -Forbes, by Jerry Flint, 13 June 2006: -- Half of Europe’s 15 million new car sales a year are for models with diesel engines. In the U.S., manufacturers sell fewer than 50,000 diesel cars a year... Once again, diesels have a chance--but only a chance--at gaining ground in America. Rising fuel prices work in their favor, as does the advent of cleaner diesel fuel in the U.S., which will help open the door for the importation of Europe’s high-technology diesel engines... The problem is that while cleaner diesel fuel is coming to market here, federal emission standards are climbing, too. The Europeans say that their new technology diesels will be able to meet our tougher rules, but not for a few years...
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