Comment Re:What took it all so long?? (Score 1) 269
A few possibilities:
- Taxes based on mostly trucking use for diesel - higher than gasoline. I.e. we have slow-footed politicians.
- Emission standards met only recently, combined with slow footed US car companies
- Bad history with stupid diesel offers in the past - US car companies never seem to be able to do things right after a mistake. For all their PR money, they never seem to think they are good enough to actually change the consumer opinions about a car, but they do think they can fool them (i.e. After X-cars got a bad name, they just re-labled the cars and the platform).
- Siberian weather in the midwest - A hard cold snap in the fall can jell summer weight diesel fuel. Getting stranded in the cold just once for such a reason would convinvce the strandee and all their friends and family to never try diesel.