Diesel price soaring
Bob Morris @ Mar 14th 2008 02:06 - Category: Unfiled
Sue has a VW New Beetle diesel. She says the price of diesel has been been going up 5-10 cents a day for the past few days.
This impacts everyone, because much of what we buy and use is trucked in by diesel.
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DJ on 14 Mar 2008 at 5:12 pm #
In Utah, the cost of diesel typically runs 25% higher than gasoline. That’s something to consider when calculating savings from the better mileage of automobile diesel engines: it’s got to get 25% better mileage just to cost the same.
As diesel prices increase, at some point it will no longer be cost-effective to ship cheap goods by truck. We may still get them by rail (where available), but that suggests some painful changes in employment patterns, since trucking employs over 6 million people in this country.
BTW, what kind of mileage does Sue get in her diesel?
Bob Morris on 14 Mar 2008 at 7:38 pm #
Sue gets about 40 mpg in the VW New Beetle diesel. My Prius gets 44, so the VW does quite well.