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To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (34037)	5/20/2003 5:55:30 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Diesel engines in Europe are not heavy polluting, KJC. They developed in the late 90's lean burning engines that are not polluting at all! The Germans -who developed those engines- were lobbying Brussels to enforce their low polluting engines as the benchmark, so to force others -the French- to stay out of the market for a while since the Germans had already the lowest polluting Diesel engines ready. With new alloys they could make engines' blocks that allow the Diesel to be burnt at a hotter and very high pressure. Older dirty burning engines, couldn't do that and the Diesel was burnt at lower pressure and giving off higher level of pollutants.