Diesel RVs: Re: [diesel

Another consideration here is that older refining processes extracted available components from crude. More recently refining has added "cracking" into the process to break some of the heavier fuels into lighter fuels so more gasoline can be gotten from a barrel of crude than is actually contained in the barrel as it comes from the well. This may result in higher gasoline & lower diesel production.
Blaise

From: "audiolaw@aol.com" <audiolaw@aol.com>
To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, April 30, 2011 12:08:55 AM
Subject: Re: [diesel_mercedes] fuel

I don't mean to sound cynical here, and anyone who knows me knows that I have nothing but skepticism for the conduct of corporate america. I think the oil companies are the bottom of the barrel for corporate morals.

But I also see the real world out there. We have been eagerly sending our manufacturing base overseas. Everyone talks about China, but there is also Brazil and all those nations in the southeast Asian area (including Vietnam).

All those place used to be farm based. Think of the pictures from the Vietnam war, all the Hueys flying over rice paddies being plowed by water buffalo.

Now those places are factory zones, with people making real wages (low but real) instead of growing their own food. Mercedes says that China is a bigger market now than the U.S. People aren't buying those cars without having fuel to put in them. The factories aren't cranking out products without trucks to take them to market.

Simple reality is that we are competing for fuel supplies with emerging nations with huge and growing demand. Most places use diesel more than gasoline. And there is less diesel in a barrel of crude than there is gasoline.

I'm sure that there is plenty of collusion and price fixing and any other number of things that companies do to push up prices. But if the system were entirely fair and openly competitive, the emerging nations would be soaking up huge amounts of fuel that used to be used just by us and Europe. And the price would be rising and would continue to rise into the future.

Tom

In a message dated 4/29/2011 5:55:49 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, duckn8r@me.com writes:

Rock on bro you rule!!!

They have been over charging us for the last 12 or more years, can any one tell me why diesel is more than gas. when they make gas the diesel is what is left over they really don't have much to do to make it real some body has to know why?

Sent from my iPad

On Apr 29, 2011, at 7:08 PM, max_stemple <max_stemple@yahoo.com> wrote:

It's been $4.49 a gallon here for a lonmg time. Whats the problem with you other folks? Gas people? I say wWhat the fuck you complainging about, we diesel people are paying .50cents more so shut the fuck up please. Hey at least I say "please" Max