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Originally Posted by ambrola
So what would you think it would cost in electricity? Has to be cheaper than gas. I wish VW still made the Jetta TDI, I would buy another one today. I frigging hate to buy gas, as you guys can tell. The Jetta Diesel I bought in 2006 has been by far the best car I have ever bought. And it gets close to 50 mpg.  My truck gets 20. I fill it up at least once a week. It's not bad now, but when gas hit 5 bucks a gallon, it sucked. |
Ronnie.
The top fossil fuel is diesel, nothing can beat the efficiency of a diesel engine, that's the only fossil based fuel who can produce 138,700 BTU per US gallon.
The problem we face today is the new pollution control system used on those engine kill them, a new VW tdi will never last more then 200,000 Miles without major work unless you reprogram the ECM with a flash tool (Cheating)
You end up with more power, greater economy but you need to flash the ECM back to his OEM programing before you pass a pollution control, some have only add 5 gallons of B20 and apparently it work for them...
After many complaint from firework and emergency hospital transport department about equipment stalling on duty, the EPA allow emergency vehicles constructors to remove those crappy pollution control system. For those who don't know yet, all military equipment have no pollution control system since day one! Getting stock under heavy fire with a Humvee add a bit of stress to your duty they says...