> Actually Bret, he doesn't hate diesel because of he trucking industry, he
> was an owner/operater himself for a time. He hates diesels in anything but
> medium and heavy trucks. Anything less than a GCWR of sixteen tons is a
> poser in his book. Because, of course, when Mercedes started putting diesels
> in passenger cars, that caused the price of diesel fuel to skyrocket. Now,
> you can by any 3/4 ton pickup with a diesel, so that makes it worse of
> course, even though the vast majority of road diesel used in the US is used
> by the ever-expanding trucking industry.