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Originally Posted by Piwoslaw
So why is diesel cheaper than gasoline in most parts of the world? Since there is almost twice as much gasoline "in" a barrel of crude than diesel, plus diesel is used in trucks, ships, etc., in much greater amounts than gasoline is used by cars, so there should be less diesel available than gas so it should cost more (by at least a factor of 2 or 3). Or maybe diesel is so much easier to produce, while gasoline is needed for other things?
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Here's another site you can look at. I don't know about other parts of the world but in the US diesel in more expensive than gasoline. In this area it's about 20 cents. I think the Taxes on diesel are more than gasoline. 7 cents or so here in the US.
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Making a gallon of diesel fuel requires 25% more oil and emits 17% more heat-trapping greenhouse gases than gasoline reformulated with MTBE. Similarly, diesel requires 17% more oil and emits 18% more heat-trapping gases than gasoline reformulated with ethanol. This means that diesel fuel's advantages from its higher per-gallon energy content and better performance on greenhouse gases are partially offset by the impact of diesel's fuel-production process.
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