“Yeah. All the old problems of diesel are pretty much gone, except the ability to pull in front of any random pump at any random gas station.”
When you consider that you have an extra 200 to 400 miles to look on a tank of gas, searching for diesel gets more manageable.
...and, in any case, with the rise of diesel pickups, there’s not any problem finding the fuel any more. Not true for CNG (Compressed Natural Gas), though.
http://www.thedieseldriver.com/2011/05/new-volkswagen-passat-tdi-with-800-mile-range-introduced/
It’s the last 30 miles that always matters.
Depends on where you’re. I already described the diesel situation in Tucson and other SW parts I get to. There’s still a good 10 to 20% of stations that don’t have it, and the ones that do only have it at 2 pumps out of their 8 to 16. When all stations have it on at least 50% of their pumps there will be no problem, until then it’s gas for me.