Published Nov. 22, 2003

Twenty-five years after diesel cars
largely disappeared from American highways in a black cloud
of tailpipe exhaust, the energy bill whose fate is hanging
in the Senate invites a much cleaner incarnation back.
These so-called advanced diesels would be eligible for tax
credits equal to those in the bill for alternative-fuel
vehicles and gas-electric hybrids.
Published Nov. 22, 2003

Environmental groups say that the new generation of diesels
will still be too dirty to merit tax breaks but they view
credits for cleaner technologies like hybrids and hydrogen
fuel cells as one of the few things to like about the bill.
Over all, they say, the energy bill will increase the
nation's automotive oil consumption.


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