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Originally Posted by JCL
Vehicles like the diesel X5 are getting lots of attention right now. But they are reported by the US federal government to consume more barrels of oil at the wellhead (due to diesel fuel production issues) than their gasoline counterparts.
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Does this take into account the relative on-road consumption of diesel vs petrol X5s?
Wholly agree that supplying a wealthy market (ie, North America) with cheap fuel is a recipe for misuse and potentially disaster but I'd prefer, and feel better about, driving something like an X3 20d rather than something like an Lexus RX400h, anyday. A petrol-electric hybrid from Toyota etc creates more enviro problems than it solves.