Getting the price of diesel down would help. As delivery fuel prices increase most carriers as a surcharge to the costs. As the fuel goes down then delivery cost should drop. But you know as well as I do once the price goes up do we ever see the price come back down again?
You hit the nail on the head. While the price of gas is down, diesel prices have not changed in several years. That has to do with a refining and shipping problem.
Back in about the 90s diesel fuel was much less that gas, but then car companies began to build more diesel automobiles to get around Government regs on required fuel economy. It's always the Government's fault. Anyway, the demand for diesel went way way up along with the prices (supply and demand issue), and here we are paying more for groceries due to the high cost of shipping.
Gasoline is the first product when boiling crude during distillation, and about 45% of a barrel of crude is gas, so unless the demand for gas is super high (which they'll boil crude down until it turns into gasoline) it's the easiest and most abundant fuel to produce from crude.
Cannot get diesel without taking the gasoline off the top first.
Looking at prices, consider inflation as well.
There was $2 gas 20 years ago. If that was okay then, then $3.50 gas should be good now.
Synthesis of heavy oils and fuels from light products is not a new process, and similarly cracking lighter fuels from heavy products isn't new either.
Modern, American refineries focus on gasoline because it's a larger, more profitable market versus diesel. If that paradigm shifted, nothing prevents them from deriving more diesel per barrel than they do now, at the cost of gasoline yields. For instance, European refineries have gasoline yields of about 20% versus American refineries yielding 40%.
Getting the price of diesel down would help. As delivery fuel prices increase most carriers as a surcharge to the costs. As the fuel goes down then delivery cost should drop. But you know as well as I do once the price goes up do we ever see the price come back down again?
You hit the nail on the head. While the price of gas is down, diesel prices have not changed in several years. That has to do with a refining and shipping problem. Back in about the 90s diesel fuel was much less that gas, but then car companies began to build more diesel automobiles to get around Government regs on required fuel economy. It's always the Government's fault. Anyway, the demand for diesel went way way up along with the prices (supply and demand issue), and here we are paying more for groceries due to the high cost of shipping.
Diesel is 3.09 here. Gas 2.79 and with loyalty discount 2.69. Havent seen the truck stops prices for awhile tbh so for rhem it could still be up.
Gasoline is the first product when boiling crude during distillation, and about 45% of a barrel of crude is gas, so unless the demand for gas is super high (which they'll boil crude down until it turns into gasoline) it's the easiest and most abundant fuel to produce from crude.
Cannot get diesel without taking the gasoline off the top first.
Looking at prices, consider inflation as well.
There was $2 gas 20 years ago. If that was okay then, then $3.50 gas should be good now.
There was $1 gas just 25 years ago, so I'm good with $2 now.
Average cost of gas in US in 2000 was $1.56
Av Oct 2025 $3.06
According to this it would be the same price after the index @ $2.98, so we're only 8 cents off
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Dont forget your thieving local tax collectors.
Synthesis of heavy oils and fuels from light products is not a new process, and similarly cracking lighter fuels from heavy products isn't new either.
Modern, American refineries focus on gasoline because it's a larger, more profitable market versus diesel. If that paradigm shifted, nothing prevents them from deriving more diesel per barrel than they do now, at the cost of gasoline yields. For instance, European refineries have gasoline yields of about 20% versus American refineries yielding 40%.
Diesel in some parts of Houstön is $2.85.