Perhaps, but it's the other way round on the other side of the channel .... I always fill up with diesel returning from France.

Diesel costs more to produce than petrol.

What !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not only that, most refineries are tailored to wring as much petrol as possible out of every barrel of crude, as that's what was required.

The dash to diesel courtesy of the CO2 lunacy has dropped petrol sales and pushed up diesel.

The oil industry can either: a) spend many hundreds of millions replacing refineries early with ones more suited to producing diesel via secondary cracking processes or b) push up the price of diesel and drop that of petrol to reduce demand for diesel and drive up demand for petrol at no cost to them

As they're not stupid, "b" is the preferred option.

Roly

"As duty is the same and as diesel is an easier and more abundant product from crude oil, this is just a big huge rip-off and we can't do anything about it."

I think there is !

Its about time we just ground the country to a halt & refused to go to work by car ! I am fed up with being dictated to by polotics and we just have to accept this supply & demand bollards !. I have many friends paying out a fortune in fuel and some paying over £600 a month just in fuel to get to work and home again ! I would ask myself is it worth it ? I think not ! If the majority of the country stopped driving to work, probably two weeks and action would have to be taken ! so couple of weeks of hardship but unless we stand our ground we will never have a result !

Fuel in my area is 130.9 but 141.9 for Derv currently. Its wierd how few miles over the water & its the other way around in france and they have far more diesel than petrol cars !

Its yet another argument for avoiding diesel really, with some petrol cars now offering diesel-ish economy without the reliablity troubles of modern diesels, running on fuel which costs 10% cheaper it looks a better option.

Alternatively investigate using a mix of waste (filtered) veg oil/diesel mix, if you have an older diesel. I know someone who runs a W124 E300 diesel on 100% waste veg oil. Personally I don't think 100% is a good idea. I've alos heard of someone running an older Audi A3 on waste veg oil. I didn't think diesels of that era (Audi 1.9 TDi) would run on veg oil.

Its yet another argument for avoiding diesel really, with some petrol cars now offering diesel-ish economy without the reliablity troubles of modern diesels, running on fuel which costs 10% cheaper it looks a better option.

Generally my 306 diesel has been pretty reliable over the 8 years I've had it. You have less to components to worry about which aren't fitted to diesels. I wouldn't go back to a petrol car now.