Fuel prices.

[Jim]

Originally Posted by matyko

Diesel is much more harmful for the environment, maybe some extra taxes on it... As far as I know in Japan they dont even allow to run diesel powered cars. They only allow to fuel trucks/bigger machines with it.

I know it's much more harmful and if that was the reason for the higher price, I wouldn't care. But, there is no extra tax on diesel..it's just more expensive now. The strangest part, sometimes it's not more expensive than gas.

[Bobc01]

Originally Posted by Jim

I know it's much more harmful and if that was the reason for the higher price, I wouldn't care. But, there is no extra tax on diesel..it's just more expensive now. The strangest part, sometimes it's not more expensive than gas.

That might be because it's more economical than petrol, a kind of "you pay more because you use less" type thing.