It was paid for by my employer....come to think of it, so is the diesel :)
I do get your point. It is a few $k more for the diesel which means it will take several years to pay for itself. Still, like with my F350, I would rather pay up front and move on than feel the pain weekly.
I think we can take a cue from the rest of the world. Soon will be the day that cars are smaller for running around and work trucks are work trucks.
The days of using a one ton or even a half ton for a grocery truck or going antiquing on the weekend are limited.
Gotta compare apples to apples. The TDI version on my car (VW) gets 25-50% better milage than the gas version. 18% higher fuel costs easily get justified.
I hear you about how great the civic is on milage......I have one of those too 8) But the civic doesn't have near the poke in it that the...
Ahh, I love diesel.
15 gallon tank.
Filled up in Ft. Worth, drove to Oklahoma City, then back down to Austin without filling up.
Gallons: 15
Miles: 605
:)
That is what I had always thought too. They are hard on sulfur as it has to be below 15ppb.
I thought that was also the case in Cali for gasoline too.
Ok, so we have cleaner diesel and dirtier gas?
This morning at the local station, 3.99 diesel, 3.23 gas.
What I can get my head around is why diesel is more expensive. It costs way more to crack oil into gasoline than it does to make diesel.
Diesel prices are moving up but at a drastically higher rate than fuel stock prices are increasing...
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