I was reading The Inovis Blog - yes, I do read other things! - but Meg Suggs (Inovis) talked about how McDonalds (over in Europe!) is "going green" with their fleet of delivery trucks. I commented (of course!) on how it would be great if the US and our automakers could be as forward thinking about the acceptance of alternative fuels and energy sources (such as bio-diesel). My own car is a Chrysler PT Cruiser. Chrysler sells the PT Cruiser over in Europe, and offered (at least at one point) electric versions of the PT, as well as a CRD powered PT Cruiser. CRD is the acronym for COMMON RAIL DIESEL and it actually is a very viable diesel motor - with great performance and low emissions - not anything like the diesels we all may remember from the 80s.... Jeep even offers the CRD engine in their "Liberty" truck-ette in the US. But I digress from My original thought and point. Reading that post (at Inovis) and My comment on same made Me think of how much better and easier (!) EDI could be if more hubs and suppliers - and even EDI providers - were to be more open and accepting to other ways of thinking.. How much more we could all get done. As a ...