From Cnet.com
Feast your eyes on this, car technology and high-mileage nuts. It’s a Honda Accord that runs on diesel.

Honda expects to bring the clean-diesel car to the U.S. by 2010. It gets 62.8 miles a gallon on the highway, but otherwise looks and feels like a regular Accord. At that mileage level, the car is about as “clean” as a new Toyota Prius. But if you run it on biodiesel, a form of diesel made from vegetable oil or animal fat, it would be even cleaner than a Prius (Priuses get 60 in the city).

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Congratulations to Mercedes Benz for unveiling the first GTL diesel powered vehicles.

MB has built a pair of M-Class SUV oilburners to run this new revolutionary technology. I’m not sure if oilburners is a valid term for this now? To those that haven’t heard of GTL, it stands for Gas-To-Liquid which is basically the process of converting natural gas into a liquid form to be run in diesel engines. The benefit of this is that there are no shortages or worries of shortages of natural gas unlike crude oil. In fact some in Europe and Africa may have already experienced GTL. Shell is blending GTL into its V-Power premium diesel, but hasn’t really made it known as of yet.

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