mike mck wrote:
fordsooperdooty wrote:
Between 40 and 70% of all vehicles sold in Europe are diesels, in the USA market 2 to 3% of cars are diesel.
Euro diesels are fuel efficient, reliable, quiet and diesel is 33% more efficient than gasoline..which more than offsets the price difference because of an average of 10 miles per gallon more with diesel.
A small drawback is that although diesel has a higher energy output per gallon than gasoline, it takes approximately 25 percent more crude oil to make a gallon of diesel oil than it does to make a gallon of gasoline.
An interesting factoid about Diesel taking 25% more crude to Make a gal of diesel than gasoline. All I have ever been able to find is a barrel (42 gal) makes 20 gallons of gasoline 7 gallons of Diesel and the bal various petroleum products.
and you are wrong.
http://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=oil_refiningYou can only get 19 gallons of gasoline out of a barrel, but there is still a lot left in the barrel to give you other stuff. And you can get 10 gallons of diesel out of the same barrel, and it does not cost as much to get that 10 gallons of diesel that it cost to get the gasoline. The gasoline takes a lot more processing, so diesel is cheaper to get out.
