Diesel Question for truck campers
I believe a diesel engine is the best for hauling a truck camper. With the price of diesel going up more each week is it still worth it? Just looking for opinions. Today in Canada a gallon ...
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Own at diesel?
In Buffalo:
Cheapest gas 3.52
Cheapest diesel 4.30
I pay 22% more for diesel.
Now, if you had bought a diesel a few years ago (like me) the cost relationship was reversed. If gas cost 3.52 then diesel was at least 10% less remember?
In 2014 I have ended up paying 4.30 v. old days 3.17 for my diesel...a massive 36% increase!!
The oil companies are doing everything to stifle the use of consumer level diesel cars to maximize their profits. Diesel is less profitable.
I'm now happily camping in my gas truck.Love it. Smells good too.
If auto manufacturing was truly free enterprise and not an oil company/union/government monopoly, Moores Law would have had us driving our trucks with vastly improved power sources not using a drop of oil.
Morgan Chevalier.
In Buffalo:
Cheapest gas 3.52
Cheapest diesel 4.30
I pay 22% more for diesel.
Now, if you had bought a diesel a few years ago (like me) the cost relationship was reversed. If gas cost 3.52 then diesel was at least 10% less remember?
In 2014 I have ended up paying 4.30 v. old days 3.17 for my diesel...a massive 36% increase!!
The oil companies are doing everything to stifle the use of consumer level diesel cars to maximize their profits. Diesel is less profitable.
I'm now happily camping in my gas truck.Love it. Smells good too.
If auto manufacturing was truly free enterprise and not an oil company/union/government monopoly, Moores Law would have had us driving our trucks with vastly improved power sources not using a drop of oil.
Morgan Chevalier.
