The house sold for $200,160, but its new owners, a librarian and a diesel mechanic, received a $99,000 grant from HUD and $1,000 from Nebraska Affordable Housing Program.
The document, credited to Norman Y . Mineta the transportation secretary under President George W. Bush until 2006, objected to incentives and other policies of federal and state governments that encouraged the development and adoption of electric vehicles, while diesel technologies received no such encouragement.
Link's haunting black-and-white photographs of steam locomotives chugging through small-town America in the 1950's (just before steam trains were replaced by ones with diesel engines) received scant attention until 1983, the year he married Ms. Link; he was 73 and she 48.
Henry Waxman, Edward Markey and Diana DeGette reported that although the EPA requires permits for hydraulic fracturing that involves diesel none of the companies that admitted using diesel have sought or received permits".
"Some diesel plants receive additional payments for generating during times of peak demand, in addition to the wholesale price of power.
At the heart of the bill is a provision that allows distributors of biodiesel and biodiesel blends (mixed with petroleum diesel) to receive a federal excise tax credit.
The use of biodiesel fuel as a substitute for fossil fuel in diesel engines has received increasing attention in recent years.
(Full disclosure: when the TDI diesels first appeared they received "Green Car of the Year" status from a panel on which I served. I don't recall my vote, alas, but I certainly took VW's emissions claims at face value).
The lineup remained for the most part unchanged in most markets, although the 160 was not offered in Spain, which in turn received a new diesel model, powered by the Barreiros 2.0-litre diesel engine (not offered in other European markets).
But Dan Becker, an energy expert at the Sierra Club, said many of the vehicles that would receive diesel credits would not even meet the minimum standards in California, which sets more stringent air quality standards than the federal government.
