DiamondSCattleCo":7wovscdw said:
dj":7wovscdw said:
But like dun says.
location, location, location.
Yeah, our diesel truck prices are stupid in my neck of the woods, especially on Cummins power. When I traded my 2001 cab and chassis, I received $1000 less than I had paid for it 2 years earlier. The guy that bought it paid $1500 more for it than I had paid when it was new (the new body styles had come out, and brought up used prices since they were higher priced units and I'd gotten a good deal). Dad traded in his 89 Dodge 2500 for a 95. He'd paid $15K for it 6 years earlier and got $13,500 trade in for it. The waiting list at the local Dodge place for used Cummins power is 4 months long at any given moment.
Rod
There is no way a gas truck can get the mileage a diesel can equiped the same it's physically impossible.
Diesel weighs 7.5 pounds to the gallon while gasoline 6 pounds.
Its still about btu's converted to energy to move X pounds down the road, A gallon of gasoline is producing 120,000 btus versus diesel producing 150,000 btu's on a gallon of fuel.
So for every 4 gallons on diesel you would buy you would have to buy 5 gallons of gasoline to produce the same energy to push the truck.
4 gallons of diesel at 2.75= 11.00 dollars 5 gallons of gas at 2.75= 13.75 to get the same pounds of fuel in your tank.
Everything runs on pounds per hour of fuel consumption, military, commericial airlines etc.
Thats why diesel is converted to gasoline as it is more profitable and it is not a by product either as it was converted to avaition gasoline in WW2. We have have the capability of converting diesel to propane/butane/ gasoline for over 60 years.
This is a very simplified version of the way Fluid Catalytic Cracking units work charging gas oil and diesel's to produce lighter componets and increasing volume. Yes more gasoline barrels come out of the unit than diesel barrels charge known as volume expansion or in refining as fluffing the barrel the same number of pounds in feed and product is equal leaving the unit but the volumne is greater leaving.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/oil-refining5.htm
That is why gasoline is sold by the gallon.