| I guess I'm one of the hated morons who like to "draft" behind trucks in order to save gas when driving my van, and use their windblock to keep warm when on the motorcycle in winter.
Of course I know better than to cut one off, though... i've seen people cluelessly do it just to get ahead of one at a stoplight, forcing the driver to really clamp 'em down.
As far as the price differential btw gasoline and diesel, aside from the taxes (dont know how different they are between them) I do know that most diesels will burn almost any kind of oil, and that commercial diesel as well as its cousin, home heating oil, should be far cheaper to produce b/c it requires far less refining.
I've read in a car magazine that explains the illogical pricing of diesel vs gasoline as a result of limited refining capacity that requires refiners to dedicate more resources to making the more ubiquitous gasoline, making the high price of diesel a "supply and demand" issue b/c it is only made in shorter spurts of periodic runs monthly instead of the otherwise constant flow of gasoline production. That seems dubious to me b/c it seem severything shipped in this country runs at least partway over the road on trucks running diesel...even if there's more car miles driven you'd think that the diesel supply would rival it, no?
Who knows... one thing you can be sure of, is that "they" are screwing us again!
If only we were more diligent in not allowing our govt to overstep its constitutional proscriptions in order to collude with perpetually re-elected pork-barrel politicians and restored a cultural climate that recognized the spiritually-transcendant humanitarian virtue of our founding libertarian principles, blah blah blah blah
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Happy New Year everybody ! ! !
Hope all is well in the new year ! ! ! |