The tax on diesel is higher per gallon than on gasoline because its easier for a law maker to pass diesel taxes because for the most part you are taxing a business; not the gasoline car driving mom and pop that voted you in. Just like it was easy for the government to pass a law saying heavy road destroying trucks need to pay an annual heavy vehicle use tax. But that has been true for years so that is nothing new.
Diesel surpassed the price of gasoline with the EPA laws of sulfur content. It became more expensive to make diesel with such low sulfur content. That made diesel about 20 cents more per gallon than gasoline.
The reason diesel has rose to over a dollar per gallon more than gasoline is because someone is threating to cut off natural gas lines. Places that rely on this natural gas are changing their game plan and buying diesel in record amounts. Its because of these people buying up diesel that diesel is really in short supply. The company I work for buys millions of gallons of diesel per year. They keep track of what is going on in the diesel world. We are on mandatory fuel at the end of every shift even if the truck only needs 20 or 30 gallons. We are also to report any store diesel supply shortages we see out on the road.
The price of anything goes up when it is selling in record amounts and in short supply.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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