How comes diesel is now 10p a litre more than petrol?

Sorry to dig this up but I just stumbled across this while doing a search on Diesel. Stoned, I never thought I would be doing the same thing as you but I find myself currently owning a 02 V70 D5 with almost 150k on the clock and it is as tatty as anything lol. I had never paid any attention to Diesel prices as I was always worrying about the £1.18 a litre Fluffy was guzzling!

I went to put fuel in this week and almost fell out of the car door when I saw the price!
As far as I always knew, Diesl was easier to produce than Petrol, therfore would always be cheaper, good god what was I thinking......... I could have sworn that a good few years ago the Government were trying to push people at Diesel cars. Now there are so many on the roads the price is more than Petrol? Hmmmmmm. The simple fact of the matter is that the Goverment shouldn't be taxing our fuel as much as they do, don't care how they try to make it up, the fuel tax level is pure rape.

I was just about to send Fluffy away to be detuned a bit and then sell her but bog standard guff diesel is at well over £1.20 here and with my lead foot I am having serious doubts, I have already cut nearly 40% off the estimated miles per tank from the car now it has got used to me :(.

Dude, you know we are getting old when we are chucking in our 'Jap crap' for tractors!

Once again sorry for digging this up but my fingers fancied typing some rubbish ;).
 
russ9898 said:
i thought diesel was a by-product of petrol..basically its the crap left over after refining petrol?
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diesel typically releases about 40.9 megajoules (MJ) per litre, whereas gasoline releases 34.8 MJ/L, about 15% less.[citation needed] Diesel is generally simpler to refine from petroleum than gasoline. The price of diesel traditionally rises during colder months as demand for heating oil rises, which is refined in much the same way. Due to its higher level of pollutants, diesel must undergo additional filtration[citation needed] which contributes to a sometimes higher cost. In many parts of the United States and throughout the UK, diesel may be higher priced than petrol.[2] Reasons for higher priced diesel include the shutdown of some refineries in the Gulf of Mexico, diversion of mass refining capacity to gasoline production, and a recent transfer to ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD), which causes infrastructural complications
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I think its a question of supply and demand, petrol is more readily available


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel
 
k3v said:
Diesel prices should be less than petrol to ecourage people to switch from petrol, not the other way around
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And because diesel combustion results in all those lovely carcinogenic nitrous oxides! Lovely!

Diesel and the whole environmental issue is a revenue raising con, stick with big petrol engines!
 
PeterNem said:
And because diesel combustion results in all those lovely carcinogenic nitrous oxides! Lovely!

Diesel and the whole environmental issue is a revenue raising con, stick with big petrol engines!
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There is a reason why the Mercedes S500 was rated the world's greenest car (or something like that) for end-to-end CO2 emissions...

Diesel is dirty. Really dirty. More NOx, more soot and other carbon-containing crud than petrol. Making catalytic converters is a serious PITA, but massively profitable for precious metals companies.
 
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