Things are too slow here today. Question: Will the stricter emissions standards for diesel motors effect Nissan (or anyone else's) ability to get a motor to market? I hear that VW is pulling all of the diesels from the US market....

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I read a while back that even though Nissan builds diesel engines the EPA Gobbably Gook was why Nissan was looking to one of the North American Diesel Manufacturers for the Titan. I'll see if I can find article.

A big "buzz" amongst all the US refiners started about 15 years ago ...... a push for retro-fitting our refineries with some expensive equipment that removes ALL sulphur from diesel began ...... many refiners has implemented this process and can now produce a fairly new product called Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel ....or ULSD, as we call it .... this new process is expensive and technilogically difficult to operate .... very tedious .... but the end results are diesel fuel that doesn't emit sulphur into the atmoshere .... Low Sulphur Diesel (LSD) and Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel (ULSD) are not one in the same ..... as more ULSD becomes available, the design of diesel engines will steadily improve ..... if anybody is intrested, an eccellent book called " Petroleum Refining in Nontechnical Language" by William L. Leffler is available ..... I got mine at a big book store in a mall ....I don't remember what the stores name was, though.

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