Diesel should be half the price of gas, its much easier to refine. In fact it’s almost not refined.
It was typically half the price of gas in the 1970s until people started buying diesel cars to take advantage of the price difference. Soon as that started happening the oil companies tool advantage of the 79 oil crisis to bump up the price to parity with gas.
It’s a giant fraud and a ripoff and they make tons of money on it.
Not since comrade billie boy clinton imposed, through the communist front EPA, low sulfur rules to take place after it was out of office and comrade georgie bush left them in place.
Low sulfur diesel is very expensive to refine.
Diesel should be half the price of gas, its much easier to refine. In fact it’s almost not refined.
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A decade ago that was true before the EPA and ULSD. Not any more. You won’t make a sellable product from the sweetest oil without hydrotreating units and the like.