didn't think it used to be...
2006-10-04 01:15:39 · 11 answers · asked by hollispete 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
The duty is now the same as petrol - it used to be less.
The price difference now is due to a difference in demand: as well as there being more diesel-powered vehicles on the roads than there once were, diesel is also used in, for example, oil-fired heating systems, and demand there has increased because of recent hikes in gas and electricity prices. Where there's more demand, the price goes up.
2006-10-04 01:24:54 · answer #1 · answered by gvih2g2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A car can go further on a tank of diesel than it can on a tank of petrol (Same engine size etc) therefore it is more expensive, but works out cheaper in the long run
2006-10-04 01:27:13 · answer #2 · answered by loopy-lu21 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
diesel did not used to be more exspensive than petrol its only in these last few years with the onset of the much improved diesel engine fuel system that has increase in price you get diesel that is used off the highway that is very cheap very low tax EG builders plant highways plant JCBS ect use RED diesel it is died for the Customs and excise people to identify if any one is found running there road transport on it if you are found doing that your car ect is compounded and you are banged up so I would advise White diesel only in your car
2006-10-04 03:18:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a ripoff as diesel is less costly to refine and it is only the fact as others said here, a cash grab by oil companies due to more vehicles using it. OIL is bunker 6 when first out of ground and distilled all the way to JP4 which is jet fuel and Kerosene etc at the higher end of refining stages and diesel or # 2 furnace oil at the bottom of distillation process. It was the same when all cars switched to UNLEADED gas and the prices went UP not DOWN as it should have been, as gas IS UNLEADED at its state from distillation and the lead was added at an expense to producers to stop the engine pinging and cost money to add it, buy the lead and pay to add to gas via wages and time and equipment etc. All gas is unleaded as I said when it comes out of refinery and it is graded according to amount of octane added to it for you and I the suckers that have to pay the rip off prices for something that is already UNLEADED.
2006-10-04 01:40:34 · answer #4 · answered by colinhughes333 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Diesel is actually cheaper to make than gasoline. And diesel is cheaper than gasoline almost everywhere in the world, excepts in some parts of USA.
USA hasn't built any refineries for a long time. And perhaps now there is greater demand for and relative shortage of diesel fuel in USA.
2006-10-04 01:42:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my area Diesel is CHEAPER than petrol
2006-10-04 03:00:37 · answer #6 · answered by k 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the straightforward answer is - the authorities devoid of be conscious realised the version between diesel and petrol made it better appealing to automobile vendors - and extremely some human beings began utilizing diesel vehicles. once this got here about, the authorities placed the tax up on diesel vehicles !
2016-11-26 02:09:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Diesel is taxed more than petrol.
2006-10-04 01:18:16 · answer #8 · answered by porkscratchings 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its more to do with taxation i the UK than anything else, the slightly higher refining costs translate into practically nothing per gallon. Blame the thieving policies of Brown and Blair
2006-10-04 04:02:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i thought it was because you get more mpg with diesel but i could be very wrong !
2006-10-04 01:28:14 · answer #10 · answered by red 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋