[76GMC1500]

Do you really want everybody to drive diesels? Think about it. Our refineries are geared to make gasoline. They are extremely efficienct at distilling crude into gasoline. A 42 gallon barrel of crude can be turned into something like 35 gallons of gasoline. Because of the decrease in density from distilling crude into many lighter products like gasoline, more than 42 gallons of product can be made from the 42 gallons of crude. Diesel is much denser than gas. Not as much diesel can be produced from a barrel of crude as gas. Plus, the reason we are so efficient at producing gas is because of carbon cracking and other processes of turning less desirable hydrocarbons into the short hydrocarbon chains that make up gasoline. It may be more difficult to synthesize diesel fuel with its more complex hydrocarbon chains through these practices. Do you want to pay $6 a quart for diesel like you do your synthetic oil? I believe, because of the price of crude oil, it is wisest for us to stick with gasoline at the moment.