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In all seriousness, what is so hard to understand about this topic? VW sells diesels in the U.S., with the understanding that we use #2 Fuel (diesel) that is what it says in my manual. They obviously know the quality of the fuel here, as did Mercedes before they pulled their market share out. It seems to me like VW knows what the TDI can and cannot handle when it comes to putting fuel in. VW simply states that Bio diesel is not a fuel that is supported by their company.
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If that statement were true, why would VW recently have signed a big agreement with ADM to
work on increasing the use of biodiesel? (see
here , since you apparently didn't read any of the threads on this forum that discussed it. The agreement is "a joint research agreement aimed at
further developing and utilizing biodiesel fuels for the automotive industry".
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Because:
1. I don't want any more of our soldiers to have to die securing oil reserves
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/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif Liberal lies. We are not in Iraq for oil.
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Oh right, we're in there because of the WMDs. Oh wait, they didn't have any (and the UN inspectors prior to the war were pretty much unanimous in saying that they didn't believe Iraq did - but why trust the only human intelligence on the ground in there, when you can make up whatever intelligence you want). Or maybe it was because of all of the Al Quaeda in there - oh wait, there weren't any Al Quaeda there until we turned it into a lawless state. Let's see... what's left? Oh, now let's claim it was about spreading democracy to the middle east. Never mind that Bush had no interest in helping Yemen build their democracy (and they actually overthrew their dictatorship without any help, and have been begging for any assistance in setting up their democracy, and rebuilding their country - but Bush ignored them. COuldn't have been because their oil wells are too small and depleted - he must have just known that they were insincere about wanting a democracy. And when they were begging for help in kicking terrorists out of their country, they were probably lying too). The country in the middle east that not only developed WMDs (nukes), but also gave the technology to other countries (Iran, Libya, and North Korea), AND has refused to allow our military to cross the borders looking for Al Quaeda is... Pakistan. Not Iraq - Pakistan. Bush has punished them by giving them nearly $1 billion in aid. But let's ignore that, and pretend that Bush's concern has really been hunting terrorists and keeping WMDs out of their hands - even though the country that poses a threat in that manner in the middle east he's been giving aid to. /images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif Sure, all liberal lies.
Never mind that the API (American Petroleum Insitute) put out a report roughly a year before the invasion of Iraq, stating the great need to open up Iraq's oil fields to prevent worldwide demand from exceeding worldwide supply - which we're very close to having happen. Those API folk must be a bunch of lying liberals too, eh?
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2. The US's economy is hurt very badly by the $100 billion + that we spend every year buying oil from foreign countries.
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Our economy is hurt badly? /images/graemlins/grin.gif Please explain...We have the best economy in the entire world.
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What planet are you living on?
1. Explain to me how having to spend >$100 billion a year just to buy oil from other countries is anything other than bad for our economy.
2. Explain to me how our economy is so great when over 2 million people have lost their jobs here in the past few years.
3. Explain to me how our economy could be the best in the world when leaders of foreign countries (mostly some European ones and a few Asian ones (Japan, etc.)) have been appealing to Bush to do something about our massive deficit and other economic problems since they are starting to hurt other economies around the world (by weakening the US dollar considerably).
Let me guess - you agree with Bush's economy advisor that it's good for the US when companies lay off Americans and outsource their jobs overseas? Would it be good if you were laid off, and your company hired someone in India instead? How would that benefit our economy - or you?
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3. The whole greenhouse issue, which I know many people here think is a bag of lies spread by greenpeace. /images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif
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/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Of course it is a lie. this was the coldest winter NYC had in 50 years. Greenhouse effect? where?
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Once again - read the long thread we've had about this. "Global warming" is a misnomer. "Global CLimate Change" is the proper term. THe initial warming results in melting of the polar caps, which decreases the salinity of the oceans, resulting in a slow down (and potential complete shut down) of the ocean currents (such as the Gulf Stream) which regulate temperatures worldwide. The result being some places get much hotter (due to the greenhosue effect itself combined with the ocean currents not pulling heat from their environment) - while other places get much colder. This was predicted by scientists years ago - that the slowing down of the Gulf Stream (which has already been observed) would result in the eastern US (which includes NY) and western Europe experiencing colder weather.
I've explained this (with links to online papers) many times here before - I know you prefer to not bother reading about it, since then you wouldn't be able to so easily dismiss it.
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Biodiesel is experimental. I think that is the most fair and objective point to make right now.
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Why? How many more tens of millions of miles need to be driven on it before it will no longer be considered "experimental"? It doesn't matter that there are many people with 100k miles or more on their vehicles with B100, since you haven't used it, it must be experimental, right? How about the fact that almost the entire US military is using it in almost all of their diesel vehicles? Without a SINGLE problem caused by it - it's still experimental, right?
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Yes, you can get a bad batch of dino fuel, but you can also get a bad car from the factory, or get a bad t.v......what is the point in this equivalence that does not exist?
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Huh?