This article talks about low-sulfur gas being used in conventional internal combustion engines and making them almost emissions free. Honda was one of the sponsors to the study (go figure). This may be a good alternative to the hybrid cars...especially for companies like GM that love those big, throaty, V8's

http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/...04-clean_x.htm

 

good thing they came up with that cause i was prepared to ride my bike rather than drive a hybrid. :barf:

 

Honda and Chevron helped fund the report. How interesting, my car company and the place I always get my gas... eh... never mind.

I think the problem is to take low-sulfur nationwide. I know that there was a push to bring sulfur-free diesel engines to the US for ultra-clean diesels, but US manufacturers said it would be too expensive to eliminate sulfur in diesels to at most 25 parts per million, despite Europe already selling diesel fuel that is "sulfur-free".

 

What

The Civic Hybrid looks and drives even better than the current Civic EX. The Insight was just a science experiment, and it was successful.

 

Would low sulfur fueal hurt performance?

Or do the Big 3 jsut ***** becuase itll take a tiny bit of R&D to get things rolling....

 

:werd:

 

Low sulfer wouldnt' hurt performance. Octane ratings would remain the same. The sulfer is just a biproduct of burning gasoline, and is able to be reduced by using [costly] detergents in the mixture.

 

Then why the fvck arent we doing this already?

 

It costs money. People are cheap bastards and oil companies are greedy.

 

I think the goverment should lower the taxes on low sulfur fuel. By like 10 cents a gallon lets say. That way, people would WANT to use this new kinda of fuel. I think the gas companies dont want to do this cuz itll require them to do a bit of restructing.

Anyways, would a current car be able to run on low sulfur fuel?