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Article: Navistar's green diesel technology demo puts ultra-low diesel fuel in role of alternate fuel.
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- Diesel Progress North American Edition
- Article date:
- August 1, 1999
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I hear this all around the globe. From Xian and Beijing, China, to Seoul, Korea, to Melrose Park, Illinois. If people would just take a fresh look at state-of-the-art clean diesel, they wouldn't fly off on alternative fuel tangents that have no infrastructure support. Isn't it smarter, faster and cheaper to fix a system that actually works very well than nuke it and start all over?
The economic evaluations for alternative fuels are always tormented structures of self-interest. In addition to the new infrastructure costs, proposed alternatives also typically substitute a tax-free fuel or even a fuel with a tax incentive for a fuel that is heavily taxed. So any ...