Not having an emergency doesn’t mean it’s readily available. Just checked things out on my drive to and from the gym, 3 stations, one 16 pump, two 8. 16 pump station didn’t have diesel on the price sign but had the typical (for this area) 2 pumps of diesel, first 8 pump had it on the sign (but not in a different color) and the usual 2 pumps, second 8 pump didn’t have it. So that’s 32 pumps of gas and 4 pumps of diesel, that’s the difference between ready availability and limited availability. And yeah sure, you can always plan ahead, but because it’s of limited availability you need to plan better.
“And yeah sure, you can always plan ahead, but because it’s of limited availability you need to plan better.”
I think that you’ll find most diesel owners do not plan ahead, they simply start looking a bit earlier if in an unfamiliar area, roughly about the same time a gasoline engine owner would have to look (due to his lower range). On long trips that’s not even necessary, since virtually every gas station on a major highway (and most minor ones) sells diesel. It’s just cases such as hanging out in the San Francisco area that would make owners a bit more cautious.
If most of the service station you past sell diesel, you will have a hard time convincing anyone that it isn’t readily available.
A service station having additional pumps of gasoline does not make the diesel less available.
Did you see any long lines waiting to get to the diesel pumps while the gasoline pumps did not have the lines?
Do you really consider waiting behind a car or two to get the diesel pump make it not readily available?