Re: TDI

The main reason Diesel is over $4 per gallon here in Calif. is there's a
short supply of refining capacity... When all the mergers took place, a
refinery in San Bernardino was closed that produced 6% of all the diesel
produced in the state. The closure produced a 3% shortfall for the state and
I remember the state legislators petitioning the oil company (I forgot which
one it was) to sell it. It wasn't in their interest to do so but they
finally consented with a key component removed. It finally did reopen with
Flying J as the new owner.
Nobody will build/improve refining capacity here (or anywhere, for that
matter). Refining bottlenecks are where all the profit lay. I remember an
interview with a Saudi oil minister where the interviewer asked if they
would turn up the tap to lower oil prices. He said, more or less, they could
pump till the cows came home, but it wouldn't help...your problem is
refining capacity. I've never heard a word from him since.

I may have double posted this by mistake, sorry!

"Derek Palmer" <d.e.r.e.k.p.a.l.m.e.r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jo Bo wrote:
Actually the ULSF has been here for over a year. It's a EPA approval
thing on the eura (sp?)...

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In article <1vcus3hv4ggulumiiaqam1831sm7ttvpga@xxxxxxx>, Jim Behning
<jimbehning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No, sometime soon though.
http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=203430

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 15:01:41 -0800 (PST), higgledy <higgledy@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


In the USA, is VW currently offering a TDI in any model?

It's a fuel quality issue, burn the older hogher sulfer content fuel and
you mess up the exhaust system. Since that would be a warranty issue
they
have been reluctant to bring in the new TDi design until the fuel
situation
here has 'settled' down. I think sometime late this spring/summer or at
the
beginning of the next model year will see a Jetta TDi.

fundamentalism, fundamentally wrong.



So is that why Diesel is over $4/Gal. out here in California?
Seems they don't want to let anything in that would reduce the cost/mile.
I'm staring to understand how the Europeans feel. It's hard to fathom.
I've got a friend down the road that makes his own biodiesel and his coop
members pay 70cents/gallon? That covers all his equipment expenses too?

You'd think a factory would be even more efficient.



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