Ford 7.3L GASSER rumor confirmed

The diesel engines themselves are fine. It is the emission systems and mostly the particulate filters that I am hearing about. The story I hear from the truckers that I know is that the new engines burn burn a third more fuel that the old ones. I have heard more complaints about the off road diesels, including my own Kubota tractor. Keeping them hot enough to keep carbon from building up in the exhaust system is a challenge. I have already had one $1500 repair because a chunk of carbon jammed the EGR valve. One Deere's own site a customer complains that he had $5,000 repair at 50 hours from not keeping his exhaust hot enough. Kubota covered my repair under warrentee at 700 hours, Deere stuck him for the bill. A friend had a $17,000 repair on his Cat skid steer due to emissions controls and his business was down for three weeks. The farmers I know would rather have good used equipment than new. And there is no escaping the high carbon content of diesel which is blamed for global warming. I think that we can expect a carbon tax on diesel as soon as Trump is out of the White House. Even with the current price of diesel vs gasoline I go gasoline when I have the choice. Nobody builds gasoline tractors right now but I liked the old Ford 3000 gas burner that I had and would gladly buy another gas engine if I could. The cost of diesel is part of why I don't own a diesel truck. So far no issues with the two Ecoboost engines that I have or the gas engines that proceeded them.
I think that the 7.3 is going to be very popular with people who
1) Don't drive a lot miles
2) Idle a lot. This includes most emergency vehicles and bucket trucks
3) Don't want to spend $8,000 more for a diesel
4) Want to burn CNG (heavy city use)

I expect the 7.3 to go a long ways toward closing the performance gap between the 6.2 gas engine and the current diesels. Time will tell. What is going to be more interesting is seeing how long before both are replaced by electric.