[reg45]

The problem with diesel is this. Our current oil refineries have been optimized for the production of gasoline - diesel is a secondary product. They would have to be re-engineered to produce more diesel and less gasoline.

Or new refineries would have to be built. Between the enviro-wackos and the Obama-bots, that will not happen.

So there is a chicken/egg dilemma. If refineries are modified, an expensive and time consuming process that is usually only done every twenty years or so, there would have to be enough demand to justify a change in process engineering, otherwise the modified refinery would be producing a product without a market.

[Kenny Bunk]

Diesel=heating oil=powerplant fuel. Diesel is one whole hell of a lot easier to produce than gasoline. It needn't be catalytically "cracked," for one thing.

Speaking of gasoline, our government (remember them) has mandated "boutique" fuels, which vary wildly from region to region, depending upon what bogus science they are using in the region.

Diesel has to be de-sulfured, for example, which makes things much more complex than necessary.

You want to blame Bush for something? Blame him for letting the EPA run things. He spent 8 years doing very little about oil, weird for a man reputedly once in the awl bidness.