<p>I was just driving around and noticed that most of the stations had the price for diesel posted for less than regular. I live in the Detroit metro area.</p>
<p>Has anyone else seen this in their area?</p>
<p>Why the flip? For years diesel has been more than regular.</p>
<p>I drove across the Texas panhandle, part of NM and up to Colordo Springs recently. Diesel was about equal with regular.</p>
<p>Not sure of the whys. It seemed to me that there actually was a higher percentage of frieght trucks on the road (compared to passanger vehicles) than say a year ago, but overall traffic seemed down. I guess there could be less demand for diesel due to the economic slow down.</p>
<p>$2.07 in Jersey vs. $1.91 for RUG. And that’s for full service, it’s actually illegal here to pump your own.</p>
<p>toblin- I’m also in NJ, and I’ve noticed the same thing. On a sidenote, I have also noticed that the price of gas is going up again- in September, it cost $45 to fill up my car, in March it cost $25, and now it’s closer to $30 (I usually go to the same gas station).</p>
<p>I thought diesel was always cheaper than regular gas and only got more expensive relatively recently, like in the past year. So, cheaper than regular would be the norm, unless I am totally off. I do remember when gas was approaching $4/gallon, diesel was $4.25 and I felt bad for the truck drivers.</p>
<p>Actually, diesel has historically been significantly more expensive than gasoline in the US because of lack of refining capacity unlike Europe for instance. </p>
<p>That may be a good thing if clean burning diesel comes down as a modern diesel design gets even better mileage than hybrids on highways. (Not in cities where hybrids are far more efficient). The ultimate engine (outside of pure electric) would be a plug-in turbo diesel-hybrid. Volskwagen was looking a converting their popular TDI into a hybrid. That would be a great car.</p>