Got an interesting email from my brother in Texas this morning.
"The current average in Texas is $3.759 per U.S. gallon for regular
unleaded, super about $0.30 more, diesel about $0.80 more. *Regular is
generally expected to go over $4 within the week. *Sales of pickups and
large SUVs are off about 20-25% from a year ago, and sales of
subcompacts and hybrids are up about 20%. *Resale prices for 2006 VW
Jetta TDIs (the last reasonably-priced diesel car sold in the U.S.) are
about new price, even with close to 100,000 miles on them. "
So it seems the differential between diesel and petrol is roughly the same as it is here - so much of it being just the Asian market. Wait until it moves into the northern winter and they start to use it for heating!
John
