Retail kerosene here in NC shot well past diesel several years ago. Due to the general slide in retail fuel prices, diesel is now under $3.00/gal. here for the first time in a very long time. Kerosene? $3.99. Not moved much at all. Poor country people heat their houses with it using portable kerosene heaters, or once did. It has no road tax, it’s dyed red and illegal to use in road-going vehicles. So, unless there’s some penalty attached to kerosene of which I’m not aware, I can only assume that the supply is constrained, but even home heating oil is cheaper. I don’t know what to make of it.
Is there any reason they can't burn highway diesel in their kerosene heaters?