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Old 05-26-2018, 10:07 PM   #4 (permalink)
Crashy
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Originally Posted by 19bonestock88 View Post
In addition, you’re now mixing 93 octane non ethanol fuel which I’m betting is at least a dollar more than regular unleaded, with on road diesel, which is usually on par price wise with premium unleaded
In NZ, until recently, unleaded was double the price of diesel. Petrol gets heavily taxed at the pump, while diesel users pay a tax per km. In theory, if you could go 51% petrol, 49% diesel then you would save 25% overall. But diesel gets 35% better mpg, so you would need to add another 17% to your km/$ figure. Australia is similar I think.

Can we call this myth plausible yet?
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