"John Chase" wrote in message
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North wrote:

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They (the car makers and Gov) need to make more diesel powered
vehicals avalible in the U.S., but big oil and the EPA won't let them
and it's ****ed up.

I've been driving a diesel-powered vehicle for 10 years now, and have seen
the
price of Diesel fuel rise from about 20% less than the cheapest regular
gasoline
to about 10% more than the mose expensive premium gasoline. Care to try
to
explain that?

Well, it's been going up and down, above and below the price of gasoline,
for 30 years that I know of.

You can play an entirely different market game with diesel in the US. The
demand is relatively inflexible. Most of it is consumed in commercial use,
and commercial users can't decide to vacation close to home instead of
across the country, nor can they car pool or decide to take the bus.

So, it's a market game, but it's a different market game than the one for
gasoline. So the relative prices are out of step.

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Ed Huntress