The biggest reason is financial.. Diesel is needed for large vehicles, trucks, etc. Depending on how you look at refining gasoline is a byproduct of diesel productions.
If you get 2 usable fuels from the base crude oil, society needs consumers of each fuel. Thus consumer vehicles are typically gasoline and commercial large vehicles are typically diesel. If all consumptions switches to diesel price of diesel would be incredible and price of gasoline would be cheap.
Should the people of California pay to subsidize the roads of many rural states? What about telephone subsidies for those states?
Ironically, the states that tend to complain the most and produce federal revenue on the lower end per-capita get more return on their federal dollars than the higher federal revenue producing states like California.
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The biggest reason is financial.. Diesel is needed for large vehicles, trucks, etc. Depending on how you look at refining gasoline is a byproduct of diesel productions. If you get 2 usable fuels from the base crude oil, society needs consumers of each fuel. Thus consumer vehicles are typically gasoline and commercial large vehicles are typically diesel. If all consumptions switches to diesel price of diesel would be incredible and price of gasoline would be cheap.
Should the people of California pay to subsidize the roads of many rural states? What about telephone subsidies for those states?
Ironically, the states that tend to complain the most and produce federal revenue on the lower end per-capita get more return on their federal dollars than the higher federal revenue producing states like California.