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Originally Posted by JCL
I can understand your focus on fuel efficiency at the pump vs barrels of crude, since you pay at the pump. It isn't the measure that was used to start this thread, but that's fine.
What I don't get is why you focus on CO2 output and don't consider NOx output when comparing gasoline models to diesel models. There are lots of published CO2 figures since that is the primary regulated emission in Europe. However, in North America, the effects of NOx are considered and regulated to such an extent that they are the reason you have a urea injection system onboard your 35d.
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I understand your points and appreciate them. However, I was purely responding to the post presuming that the 35d was less green due to the lack of an 8 spd tranny/'old technology'. I know/knew that the 35d has better mpg and co2 numbers and used that in my response. Can also add better NOx numbers to my response.
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