Omelet wrote:
> In article >,
> George > wrote:
>
>> Dee Dee wrote:
>>
>>> Here in the US, there are notices on every product that I've purchased
>>> about
>>> the energy consumption. It's always been a consideration to me.
>>>
>>> People always are making blanket statements regarding the U.S.'s thinking
>>> on
>>> just about everything and offering their opinions about the pysche of
>>> America --
>>>
>>> Dee Dee
>>>
>>>
>> I live in the US and there are lots of single occupant drivers of
>> trucks driven as a fashion statement wasting millions of gallons of
>> gasoline every day for which we compensate by grinding up corn to make
>> ethanol which has significantly increased the price of anything using
>> the corn such as poultry, milk etc. Anyone observing this could rightly
>> shake their head.
>
> One has to ask why the price of diesel is higher than Regular gas.
> It's a cheap by-product to be burned by cheap engines.

Diesel engines are more expensive to produce than gasoline engines.
Diesel fuel is more expensive because there have been a number of staged
requirements that have gone into effect to reduce emissions mostly
related to the amount of sulfur in the fuel. It costs more to remove the
sulfur and since sulfur also performs other functions more expensive
additives need to be added to compensate.

>
> Methinks someone is profiteering off of us, yet again.
>
> And it drives up the price of food due to deliver costs.