[Vwdiesel] NPR: Carmakers revamp diesels as clean machines

[Terry Briggs]

Most of the crude type oils like #6 which is almost crude wouldn't flow 
unless you could heat it enough, basically  #6 is a solid below 90 
degrees F and doesn't really "flow " until about 160
On Feb 7, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Kurt Nolte wrote:

> Stephen Kraus wrote:
>> They also sported a few less than true facts, such as diesel taking
>> more to
>> make (my understanding was that it takes less oil to make as diesel is
>> almost crude) And diesel can practically run crude oil can they not?
>
> No, they can't. Not our diesels (or any automotive diesel, even the
> fabled Mercedes of old) at any rate. Crude oil is simply too viscous to
> be pushed through our injection systems. Crude can be burned in a 
> diesel
> designed to take it, same as "bunker" oil that heavy ships burn, but
> just any old diesel would choke and die in short order.
>
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