DaimlerChrysler promotes more US diesel

This from them this week:
Loren Beard, Senior Manager of Fuels for DaimlerChrysler, said that, “Diesel will be good for America, and biodiesel makes diesel better.”
He said that diesel engines provide 30 per cent better fuel economy and 20 per cent less CO2 emissions. He also pointed out that biodiesel would use 20 per cent plant based fuel that had been grown in the USA, not imported from the Middle East.
According to the American government’s own figures, if diesel had a 33 per cent share of cars and pick-ups, the U.S. would reduce its oil consumption by up to 1.4 million barrels of oil per day.
That would mean it could stop importing oil from Saudi Arabia altogether.

They are pomoting it because they have a strong pipeline of clean diesels coming to the US. I expect next year to be the beginning of a battle royale for the hearts and minds of US consumers between Japanese hybrids and European clean diesels.