My 91 Jetta ECOdiesel has a factory catalytic converter on it.  The sulphur
content does not affect the cat converters.  It reduces acid rain formation
from sulphric acid released from burning high sulphur fuels.
TEMiller

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brice Ligget" <gremlinmt@BRESNAN.NET>
To: <SABMAG@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [SABMAG] Diesel bike sets land speed records

> Actually diesels soon will have emission testing.  The big ultra low
> sulfur
> diesel projects that refineries are putting in right now are to reduce the
> amount of sulfur in diesel fuel so that diesel engines can have catalytic
> converters fitted.
>
> You wouldn't believe how much money oil companies are spending right
> now.  I work at three different refineries here abouts.  The big one is
> dropping 100 million a year into new construction.  The middle sized one
> has just delayed scheduled maintenance until next spring because it needs
> the mogas unit running full out to keep up with gasoline demand.  Heck
> even
> the little refinery is dropping 40 million a year on construction of a new
> coker unit.
>
> Big things are happening in petrochemical right now, new ways of
> converting
> coal to gasoline,  synthetic gas, etc.
>
> At 08:23 AM 10/8/2005, you wrote:
>
>>I wonder what kind of sound a diesel bike will have? Personally, I don't
>>care much for diesel vehicles because they are noisy and I don't like the
>>fumes.  I guess there will be another class of vehicles that won't be
>>subject to emition testing.
>
>
> --
> Brice Ligget
> 1984 VF700S
>
> Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips
> over, pinning you underneath.  At night, the ice weasels come.
> -Matt Groening
>
> To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.
>   - <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Berton_Averre>Berton Averre
>