I don’t see how you are disproving those points. Especially since I weasel-worded it with “most.” I had quickly fact-checked, and discovered that modern diesels

I don’t see how you are disproving those points. Especially since I weasel-worded it with “most.” I had quickly fact-checked, and discovered that modern diesels can be quiet. So a 2017 diesel SUV is as quiet as the gasoline model. That really doesn’t override the common experience of diesel in connection with either trucks and buses, or ancient Volkswagens. All of which are much more common, and much louder, than modern TDI vehicles. Also, only 55% offering diesel automatically, mathematically, makes diesel fueling stations farther apart than gasoline. Exactly how much farther is something I don’t care to model at this time of the night. Except to say that that there do seem to be about twice as many gasoline-only stations as diesel stations in San Francisco, and the only Costcos vaguely in the Bay Area that sell diesel are in Concord and Santa Cruz. As for the air quality, that was one thing that drove me to my current general anti-fossil-fuel sentiment. I was raised in a conservative family, and back in the late 90’s it was fashionable to be suspicious of the fuel, because of the oxygenation requirements satisfied by MTBE and ethanol. And then Al Gore did his spiel, and the Heartland Institute got into global warming denial, and conservatives here are positive about buying and burning fossil fuels again. I feel it is most consistent to simply be against emitting poisonous pollutants near population centers. Whatever the case, there is certainly a difference in air quality between gasoline-congested Los Angeles and diesel-congested Paris. Which is also partly because of the tough California emissions standards, which severely cut into the fuel efficiency and hassle-free operation that made diesel attractive in the first place. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-summer-smog-20160805-snap-story.html http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-summer-smog-2016... http://www.businessinsider.com/paris-smog-problem-2016-12 http://www.businessinsider.com/paris-smog-problem-2016-12