Please read through the post I made in which I went through the math. It's really quite an eye-opener.
Back in the day, the D was considered to be a fuel hog, and tractor companies came out with diesel tractors. This was back when tractors were small and diesel was much cheaper than gasoline. As tractors have become bigger, we've gotten used to them burning more and more fuel. On top of that, diesel has slowly become more expensive than gasoline. That changes the equation a lot.
As an example, take a 720 gas vs 720 diesel: at full load, the gasser burns 4.51 gph and the diesel burns 3.15 gph. (Nebraska tests # 605 and #594) 4.51 X $2.30 = $10.37 an hour for the gas; 3.15 x $3.00 = $9.45 an hour for diesel. The 720 diesel is only $.92 cheaper an hour to run than the 720 gas. That's hardly the big savings that diesel once made.
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