pic: Ethanol powered car from GM

[BobC]

What I want to know is why does Diesel cost so much more than gasoline. Yet it cost 30% less to make diesel than it does gasoline. Why does the price of a gallon of fuel go up the day after the price of a barrel of oil go up on the open market. Yet it takes for ever for the price to come down. I can tell you how much diesel fuel went up between 2004 and 2005.

I drove appox. 59,000 miles in 2004
I drove appox. 60,000 miles in 2005

THE COST OF FUEL ???

2004 was $12,000
2005 was $18,000

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by BobC

I drove appox. 59,000 miles in 2004
I drove appox. 60,000 miles in 2005

Geez. Where do you go every day?

[Wetzel]

In Northern Virginia, there is another cost to factor into your hybrid benefit matrix: time. Up until June 1st 2006, a hybrid qualified for special licence plates that exempted you from HOV restrictions. In the heavily congested 95 and 66 corridors, this could save you an hour or more a day in sitting in traffic.

That has much greater value than a few gallons of gas each week.

Wetzel

[BobC]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Geez. Where do you go every day?

My job. I own my own truck and drive about 1200 to 1500 miles in a 5 day work week. I know it is that mush because I have to get oil change every six thousand miles which happens about every four to five weeks.

[Tomasz Bania]

I live right across from the General Motors Technical Center in Warren,MI and we have 2 E85 stations within a mile and 18 in the Metro Detroit Area. Right now the price is $1.95 a gallon. If you calculate fuel mileage through and all that, you really don't save much. Although at the pump it's 10 cents less than regular, fuel economy is worse.

Just dropping some info.

Tomasz Bania

P.S. I am planning on getting an E85 SUV soon (not for the savings since their is none, but just to be cleaner)

[6600gt]

Originally Posted by BobC

What I want to know is why does Diesel cost so much more than gasoline. Yet it cost 30% less to make diesel than it does gasoline.

Economics of supply and demand. Semis use Diesel, enough said.

Originally Posted by Conor Ryan

[*]Have you seen Who Killed the Electric Car? ?

Every one should watch this video!!!!!

Hydrogen is the next gasoline that oil companies want to make money from. It has nothing to do with the enviornment.

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by BobC

What I want to know is why does Diesel cost so much more than gasoline. Yet it cost 30% less to make diesel than it does gasoline. Why does the price of a gallon of fuel go up the day after the price of a barrel of oil go up on the open market. Yet it takes for ever for the price to come down. I can tell you how much diesel fuel went up between 2004 and 2005.

I drove appox. 59,000 miles in 2004
I drove appox. 60,000 miles in 2005

THE COST OF FUEL ???

2004 was $12,000
2005 was $18,000

Diesel in northern Virginia used to be cheaper than regular gasoline. At some point in the past two years or so, diesel switched to a low sulfur formula that caused the price to jump above the cost of premium gasoline. American gas, pretax, is some of the most expensive in the world, but it is also some of the cleanest burning gas in the world.

Environmentalism can be expensive, but the alternative could be much more costly.

Wetzel