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Wrong Fuel Chokes Presidential Limo

Posted by timothy on from the so-this-doesn't-happen-only-to-my-brother dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Fueling your car with the wrong type of fuel happens even to POTUS. This happens when you put gasoline instead of diesel in the tank. ...." And Yes, the presidential limo really is a diesel. What about clean, renewable solar?

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  1. Re:Um... by godrik · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I found it interesting to see that because of bad previous experience, Americans have a huge biais against diesel which is common in Europe. Meanwhile, because of bad previous experience, European have a huge biais against automatic gear shifting which is common in the US.

    I guess everybody is just as biased :)

  2. Re:Um... by Joce640k · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Because our NANNY GOVERNMENT has rigged the emissions and mileage games so that the only cars sitting in dealer lots are enormous gasoline guzzling full size trucks.

    Not only that, Americans love having high torque at low engine revolutions, something gasoline engines are bad at but where diesel excels.

    That's why all those trucks have 5-liter V8s in them where they should have a 2.5 liter TDi.

    It's doubleplus-lose.

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