Diesel too expensive

Thu., Jan. 8, 2015

Can anyone in the oil industry proffer a coherent reason why diesel fuel is disproportionally more expensive than regular gas? It is a far less-refined product, but it is now a whopping 45 percent higher.

I’m recently back from the United Kingdom and France. Diesel was only 7 percent higher in England, and in France diesel fuel was 4 percent less than regular gas.

This United States disparity smells of one huge oil company rip off.

Roger Slater

Mica, Wash.

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