re: its been a long time since Ive seen diesel cheaper than regular gas

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but i have never been able to find anyone who could explain why diesel is more than gas when it costs less to make. That includes several folks that work at refineries.

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as explained to me by a marathon refinery employee friend of mine:

Modern cracking(getting gasoline out of crude) gets much more gasoline out of a barrel of oil than years gone by...which in turn yields much less diesel(by product) now a days...so diesel supply suffers

there are a lot more diesels on the road now...so demand increase, decreases supply...and law of supply and demand dictates that you can command a higher price...

I bought my first diesel in 1994 when Diesel was 94cents a gallon...around 15-20 cents less than gasoline

depressing to say the least