Fascinating analysis, Memmel--Great job!

Memmel,

Perhaps your analysis can help explain why diesel in the US is so much higher than gasoline - Europe is using their buying power with the strong Euro to buy crude relatively cheaply, then export gasoline to the US as a fairly cheap byproduct while keeping the diesel for Europe (and all the diesel-powered cars). Thus, the US gasoline price is depressed versus the US diesel price, on the basis of European gasoline imports. Of course, as RR has pointed out, US low-sulfur diesel regs have also raised the price of US diesel.

In any case, insightful comment as usual.

- Brother Kornhoer