‘Clean Diesel’ is the car of the future, predicts investment advisor
by Ken Winston Caine
Forget hybrids, forget hydrogen. Diesel is the car of the future, predicts investment advisor Justice Litle.
Litle argues:
• The technology for quiet, clean-burning diesel engines already exists, (just hasn’t been required or implemented yet in the U.S. — but is state of the art in Europe).
• Diesel engines get better mileage than gas.
• Oil prices will not be coming down other than possibly in minor blips, and diesel fuel can be made from replenishable plant oils, recycled cooking oil and abundant coal oil shale — and all at prices comparable to today’s $3-per-gallon gas, and for LESS than tomorrow’s $4-per-gallon gas.
• Hydrogen just hasn’t caught on, and for many good reasons.
• Hyrbrids are a bust for anything other than a “city car.” (kwc note: And there are much less expensive options for city cars — zippy little commuter vehicles that get 45 - 55-plus mpg and get you to work and back and to the grocery and back — and we’ll be seeing them imported and on sale within a few years as gas prices continue climbing.)
Litle says, even more promising advancements with diesel are on the way and … Hybrids will not play the future role that’s currently projected because car buyers are quickly figuring out that the hybrids DON’T deliver the EPA-rated mileage and, for drivers who do rack up lots of highway miles, actually get WORSE mpg than their gas-engine twins.
Source: a slick piece of copywriting promoting Litle’s investment letter. (That’s a warning.) The “slick piece” link takes you directly to the page about new diesel technologies. If you want to see the whole salesletter, start here.
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