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Okay people. I've heard enough about this debate. "What's better? Diesel or Gas?"
For anyone who would like to pick diesel, I ask you to step out of your own shoes and look at the others who share this same environment with you.
The only people I've ever met, that have chosen diesel over gas, have all been closed to what everyone and everything around them goes through. Have you ever been stuck behind a diesel in traffic? How about live in a neighborhood where a trucker lives?
Picture this...
It's a sweltering day. Your house is cooking and all you want to do is open a window.

You open your bedroom window, only to be assailed with the stench of diesel. You start to cough. Your child also starts to cough. All you can hear outside is a diesel truck running. How happy are you at this moment?
I'm not the only person who has yelled at this guy. Even the other trucker, who live next to him has yelled at him to, "shut that... truck off!"
If you came to my neighborhood you would be able to tell which house has the truck, even when he's not home. It's the only yard where the trees and bushes surrounding the driveway are all diseased and dying. And all the neighbors glare at the home owners. We all call the driver "Diesel Dan".
My son and I have mild asthma. When that truck starts up, we have to close all the windows. If my son is outside playing, I have to bring him in.
At first, I thought I was the only person suffering from this diesel Dan problem. Then I decided to ask a few people. Everyone can smell it and hear it. All the way up the block and back down. And we live a street behind him. I live one house behind, and one house down from diesel Dan.
My neighbor lives 5 houses down from him, on the same street. She claims that she can smell it too. Her daughter has mild asthma as well. She had to take her daughter to the doctor to find out why it was getting so bad. It would act up for a week or two at a time, and then be fine for 2-3 weeks, and then act up again. Her doctor said it was something in her environment and to go home and observe when it acted up and if something was changing in her environment, to cause this. After a while, she noticed that it was only bad on the days that the truck was in town. Her daughter's asthma was pretty much, non-existent when he was out of town. She went back to her doctor with her findings and was told that she needed to discuss something with the driver. Her daughter would continue to suffer as

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