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  No diesel hybrids?

  What?  You say there's no such thing as a diesel hybrid?  Not more than a hundred yards from where I live sits a brand new diesel hybrid bus from GM and 17-18 more are on the way.  I live in Yosemite National Park and the Park Service has recently purchased cleaner, quieter, more user friendly diesel hybrid buses to replace our ancient 1986 retired city buses.  Sure it's a bit big for the average family but the technology's been around long enough (we demo'd the bus in 2002) that if there were enough demand I'm sure a car could be built.  And it seems to me that the increased battery capacity of a diesel hybrid could help to overcome the problem of keeping vegetable oil liquid when there's no engine heat.  Here's a link to the NPS report about the new buses:
  http://www.nps.gov/yose/planning/projects/shuttle.pdf
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