Why is diesel gone more expensive than petrol over the last few months?

Question

Why is diesel gone more expensive than petrol over the last few months?

Answer 1

Because this greedy government realised that more people were buying diesel cars so they decided that they would be able to rip off more motorists,they are now poised to rip off anyone that decides to convert their vehicles to gas so don't think you will ever beat them.

Answer 2

It was because of the bad weather till recently especially in America and the extended high use of home heating oil.Should start to fall a bit soon.

Answer 3

Gasoline (what you call petrol) is a byproduct of the diesel production process.  Since the majority of cars on the streets in Europe nowadays burn diesel fuel, the supply of gasoline has increased but the demand has decreased.  There's your answer:  supply and demand.

One thing that often happens is that the excess gasoline is loaded onto barges and exported the North America where diesel in passenger cars is far less common.

Answer 4

War,  tanks run on diesel.

Answer 5

expensive removal of sulfur...was 50 parts per milliom   now 15 ppm

Answer 6

Diesel requires a different refining technique to petrol and because of the increasing popularity due to the better mpg with diesel there has developed  a shortage of capacity to refine. Refinery's take years to come on line from scratch so the shortage is here for a while  

And what do they do when there is a shortage, put the price up the greedy B*******

Answer 7

because you don't earn 36 BILLION dollars a year in PROFIT without s******g every last penny/cent out of every driver.

Rik

Answer 8

Demand.  Diesel cars aren't terribly popular in the US, but they're very popular in much of the rest of the world, since a diesel engine is more heat efficient and there's more heat energy bound up in the diesel fuel, diesels are win-win for getting bang for the fuel buck.

The rest of it is that diesel fuel comes from the "middle of the barrel," which is to say it's right in there with the bulk of everything else that gets refined out of each barrel of crude.  Gasoline represents less than a fifth of each barrel of crude, but diesel can be had out of more than a third.  But large ships, aircraft, heavy trucks, farm equipment, the plastics industry, and way more stuff can all use that middle third of the barrel - a lot of it just as diesel fuel!  Diesel burns just fine, for instance, in jet engines.  But change the chemistry just a tad and it's lubricating oil, fertilizer feedstocks, dielectric insulating oil for high-voltage electrical controls.  See where it all goes?  Can't do any of that stuff with gasoline, so even though there are way more cars out there burning gas than diesel, there's way more call for the stuff that comes out of the middle of the barrel.

Answer 9

Because everybody is buying diesel cars to beat petrol prices so the greedy petrol people have seen a demand in diesel and have priced it so bloody high its now the same to run a diesel model of car compared to a petrol one...

Answer 10

Well, it has been more expensive than petrol for quite a few years now, since the last fuel crisis.  In a lot of countries, diesel was kept cheaper than petrol becuase it can be more economical.  But, generally, diesel engines cause more emissions than petrol engines, so the amount of tax changed to reflect this, in about 2002.