And I thought it was because GM had previously introduced some pretty
terrible diesel engines which people remember, and because now there is
still no US-wide availability of low-sulfur fuel which allows the
introduction of modern diesel engines.

DAS
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"Ted Mittelstaedt" > wrote in message
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[...]
> Diesels aren't
> feasible
> in the United States. It's because the population here is too suspicious
> of any fundamental change to vehicle technology to embrace it with enough
> volume to make the economies of scale be able to produce it work out. It
> has
> nothing to do with what people CAN do and everything with what they
> have been CONDITIONED to think.
>
> Ted
>
>