mattdalton

Thank you for your comments and insights, Ed and Jim. Because of them I know more than I did before.

I was reading this morning about Honda's new clean diesel engine and their plans to introduce it in the U.S. in 2009 (my guess is that means the 2010 model year). Honda's new method of getting NOx converted to nitrogen without requiring urea sounds very promising. If they do get it to the U.S. market it will be a real boost for diesel here. I just hope that the engines will run well on pure biodiesel or bio/petrol-diesel blends instead of only petroleum diesel. I plan to attend a biodiesel forum here in Seattle in May, and might find out more about it then.

While I'd like to make a choice that's well supported in terms of fuel and engine availability, I'm not looking for either biodiesel or ethanol to "beat out" the other. It's exciting to see the advances for both and the promise it brings to reducing emmisions and helping to save the environment.

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Matt Dalton