Yep, and I had just purchased a used Benz diesel
telling my son how diesel is always cheaper than
regular gas - doh!
Diesel is cheaper? Well, you used to be right. Diesel didn’t have highway tax until the 70’s after the Arabs screwed up the fuel market. Used to run about half the price of gas. But I can still buy “off road” diesel for my tractors and that has no road tax.
I seem to remember it was the Volkswagen diesel that that first put diesel into cars, in the US, and that made the Pols greedy. Mercedes had diesels going way back but there weren’t many of them here.
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