A diesel Honda? That gets 62.8 miles a gallon?
Feast your eyes on this, car technology and high-mileage nuts. It's a Honda Accord that runs on diesel.

Honda expects to bring the clean-diesel car to the U.S. by 2010. It gets 62.8 miles a gallon on the highway, but otherwise looks and feels like a regular Accord. At that mileage level, the car is about as "clean" as a new Toyota Prius. But if you run it on biodiesel, a form of diesel made from vegetable oil or animal fat, it would be even cleaner than a Prius (Priuses get 60 in the city).

The advantage of diesel cars, however, is that they pack a lot of power.


http://mydrive.roadfly.com/blog/ExJxZ3/

Ford says "No diesels for you!" to American car buyers

The Focus we should've received - diesel-powered, 50 MPG and thoughtfully styled.

During an interview with Automotive News, Mark Fields, Ford's U.S. division president, said that the automaker would not be offering diesels in any of its passenger cars in the near future.

 

It looks like diesel powered cars are starting to gain popularity. I've read another article somewhere that Toyota will be putting diesels in their hybrid cars to increase the mileage even more than they already get. And, I also read somewhere else that they are making biodiesel from algae. Combine the two, and we can free ourselves of foreign oil - and for that matter - from petroleum based fuels.

Probably isn't going to happen anytime soon, but I bet it's coming.

 

i hoping the U.S. becomes energy independent in the next 20 years.
50% of our oil is imported now...
below are some links on how we might lose our dependency on foreign oil.

pilot plant demonstrating an algae-based bioreactor system that converts captured CO2 to bio-fuel oil
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006..._green_to.html

algae and bio-fuels
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&d...arcongress.com

coal gasification
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-...arcongress.com

switch grass
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-...arcongress.com

 

I would love to see it sooner. With progress being made in developing biodiesel sources, like some of the links you posted, maybe 10 could be possible.

 

Honda Diesel Sets New World Records

U.K., May 6, 2004 – Honda’s new Accord 2.2 i-CTDi Sport has this week set no fewer than 19 world speed records and achieved 3.07 litres / 100 km (92 mpg) fuel economy to boot. British racing driver Robin Liddell and freelance journalist Iain Robertson were part of the European record-setting team.

Among the speed records set, which were all achieved in Production Car Class B (2000 – 2500 cc), were 133.04 mph (1 mile flying start), 84.25 mph (1 mile standing start) and an average speed of 130.38 mph over a 24-hour endurance period. These records were all set at Papenburg high-speed oval test track in north-west Germany on 1 and 2 May, and are all subject to FIA ratification.

http://world.honda.com/news/2004/4040506.html