Fuel./ Heavy oil products?

Question

Why has the price of Heavy oil (Diesel) increased in price so much. It is a totally inferior to petrol. 26% water, in fact?

Answer 1

BECAUSE THIS LABOUR GOVERNMENT IS s******g US BIG TIME.

FUEL PROTESTS WILL BE BACK I THINK.

Answer 2

One major reason is that home heating needs increase in the late autumn and winter, which increases demand for #2 oil, which is both diesel and home heating oil.  Also, refinery time can greatly affect the cost of refining fractions, as each one takes time from all the others.  Balancing the need costs money.

Not sure where you got the 26% water number from.  I work for a fuel retailer and can assure you, none of our diesel fuels have 26% water, or even 1%.  That would foul up an engine in about 5 seconds.

Answer 3

simple.....you're getting ripped by the petrol industry....and you cant do much because you NEED it

Answer 4

yep

Answer 5

is the US the EPA has mandated the use of ultra low sulphur diesel, it cost more to make than the old fuel

Answer 6

Interesting question.  It takes 1/7th the refining to make diesel than it does gasoline and yet it costs more at the pump.  I don't buy the excuse that because they've changed the sulphur content standards, as the price was higher BEFORE the change was made.

Let's see, less work to make a cheaper product yet costs more to the end user. . . . . . PROFIT!

Answer 7

lol...increase in oil prices have NOTHING to do with what they are made of.  it is all to do with trade embargos, agreements, politics, and boycotts between countries.  The price of oil goes up when the middle east decides it does.  We need to start creating our own energy, or make bio-diesel or SOMETHING before we have nothing to pass on to our kids but a broken economy at the mercy of other countries.

Answer 8

In France Diesel is always cheaper than petrol, thats because more cars run on diesel  there, but in the U.K the marjority of cars are petrol, and because trucks have larger tanks and require large amounts of fuel ,it means they sell more  fuel to less customers, and the garages only make money on selling bread, milk,beer ,wine, magazines, toothpaste, condoms, magic trees..................

Answer 9

We are being ripped off.

The news today is that oil is now £100 a barrel.

As a barrel is 42 gallons that should be £2 a gallon.

We are now paying more than £5 a gallon.

Answer 10

international market oil prices increasing

Answer 11

Because we idiots pay for it ..