I enjoy it when writers, much better than I, can put into words the diesel experience. While this article is about cars, I’m sure the experience goes for trucks too.

From Motor Trend, Angus MacKenzie
The Big Picture: Diesel Does It
America needs a better weapon to fight rising fuel prices

Here in America, diesels power Peterbilts. In Europe, they’re a way of life. In some countries, diesel-engined cars account for more than 60 percent of sales. If you don’t have a four-cylinder turbodiesel among your powertrain options, then you simply ain’t a mainstream player in the European market. And diesels are now de rigueur in the automotive smart set, too: more than half the Mercedes-Benz S-Class models currently sold in Europe are diesel-powered, for example, and high-performance turbodiesel V-6 and V-8 engines are now a must-have for any self-respecting European luxury carmaker.

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Sorry Canadians, y’all can make fun of me being from Texas.

From DiscoverMooseJaw.com:

Bright Future for Bio-Diesel in Saskatchewan?

Many people believe biofuels could be the key to the future of agriculture.Premier Lorne Calvert says there’s a high potential for rapid growth in ethanol and biodiesel production in Saskatchewan.

Dave Kutcher from the Saskatchewan Research Council agrees but he says it’s going to take leadership and cooperation.

“We believe there is a bright future. However, the policy at the federal government level and provincial government level has to be directed correctly and drafted very carefully”.

Kutcher was in Moose Jaw to update local Agricore United officials on the biodiesel industry.

From lasvegassun.com:

The pumps with the peculiar nozzles and large white tanks behind them tell you this is not just another gas station.

Yet this refueling station behind the Clark County Library at Cheyenne and Buffalo is where most of the city of Las Vegas’ vehicles fill up - though, significantly, not with gasoline.

It takes 1,500 vehicles to do all the driving, digging and dumping for the city, and 87 percent of them - from passenger cars to front-end loaders - now use some type of alternative fuel. They get that fuel from the tanks at the City’s Department of Fleet Services on Ronemus Drive.

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From Marketwatch.com

TOKYO (MarketWatch) — Isuzu Motors Ltd. (7202.TO) President Yoshinori Ida said Monday that he expects to take at least one year to see any positive impact on the company’s earnings from its tie-up with Toyota Motor Corp. (7203.TO).

The two Japanese automakers last week announced an alliance in development and production of small diesel engines.

Toyota and Isuzu have said they will soon start to hammer out concrete projects for the alliance.

Ida was speaking at a briefing on the company’s interim earnings results. The Japanese truck maker posted a group net profit of Y55.41 billion in the first half, up from Y26.02 billion in the same period last year.

-Edited by Shawn Schroter and Tomoko Hosaka