Originally Posted by
mustang1
May I also add... the problem I also have with diesel fuel in the UK, is diesel costs less to produce than petrol (gasoline). Yes in the UK it costs more per litre to buy. Why? Because the government has seen diesel cars being more fuel efficient than petrol cars, so users filling up as the gas-station less often. Is there an additional tax on diesel that makes it more expensive, because it sure isn't more expensive to produce.
In the US it is simular. Diesel cost more then Gasoline. Most of this has to do with the vast majority of our goods are transported by diesel and they tax the hell out of it as a result. They have made it extremly hard to make bio fuel and trying to figure out how to tax that. I hear McDonalds in Europe use their old fryer oils and make it into bio diesel to run their delivery fleet on. Good financial and good for the environment. Cant do it in the US because the government cant figure out how to tax it. Once it is taxed then it no longer make fiscal sense.
Agricultural diesel has less taxes on it and dyed a different color then "Road" diesel. You get caught with Ag diesel in a commercial vehicle HUGE fine (Tax recovery).
I had considered converting my 4Runner (Surf in the UK) to Diesel when the motor needed rebuilding. Supposedly it would get around 30mpg verses the 24mpg it gets on Gas. The math wouldnt work. I would never recover the cost of the conversion. It makes no sense but our tax system actually makes it financially prohibitive to be "green" in any areas.