All this crying over the difference today of the price of RUG & D2 is just silly to the extreme . In all the years I've been driving Diesels there has not ever been a fall without a price spike in difference . If the spike is killing you , yeah right just buy a few containers to purchase a quantity of D2 when it is always at it's lowest during late summer to get you through the fall HHO related price spike .
And COME ON PEOPLE , using this RUG price fall this year makes even less sense as an excuse to unload your diesel .
WE all know that RUG use has dropped to decades lows from the economic down turn not other forces . And the $4 a gal price shock last summer to all the idiots in their gas guzzling SUVs & Pickup trucks is why there has been such a extreme reduction in driving which has lead directly to a RUG price plummet . This extremely bad economy related RUG price drop is temporary at best , it would be kind of dumb to use it as a barometer on what fuel one should use in the future . D2 hasn't seen such a reduction in use as it isn't as tied to dumb Americans driving around in diesel guzzling vehicles ,
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The economy will get going again causing the price to go up ON BOTH and the difference % will get closer again at some point . It just a reflex reaction not a rational one to be all up in arms over the temporary difference .
The BIG Picture is where one should look ,
not the little one that many seem to be focused on .
Many of us have always been at a price disadvantage with D2 only rarely if ever cheaper than RUG . There IS NOT A SINGLE gasser , hybrids included that can do what a diesel can do . I can go coast to coast @ 75-85 mph and still see ~50 mpgs and that is from one of the very limited light duty diesels ever sold here . I consistently see mid to high 50s in my ~2 ton Passat TDI on city loops . If we had one of those 3 cyl TDI powered Polos here this would be a mute argument shutting up all the whiners , we can only dream though at this point .
I came to the diesel LIGHT some 30 years ago and have saved tens of hundreds of dollars and of barrels of oil over the years . For me at least in the areas I've lived in D2 has always between MID & PUG . I don't even look at the RUG price , I don't own a gasser don't want one . But I have paid as low as $2.35 for D2 in the last month . A price that is 1/2 what it was on a few weeks ago .
This short term extreme price difference in no way discourages me from getting behind the wheel of my fuel sipping diesel . And it shouldn't you , Remember BIG PICTURE not the
little picture ...........
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Haave a great weekend all .........