Comments by "Scott Franco" (@scottfranco1962) on "The Diesel Story - How the EU Pretended to Fight Climate Change While Poisoning its Citizens" video.

Missing from this is "cracking". When gasoline became popular, a lot of research went into increasing the amount of gasoline that came out of the oil refining process. The result was "cracking", which produced more gasoline, and thus less diesel from the input oil. The tradeoff was that it took more energy to crack the fuel. Gasoline is a more expensive fuel than diesel, besides being less efficient. The theory was that more use of diesel would not only create more use of the normal diesel output of refineries, but also allow them to reduce use of cracking to produce more diesel and less gasoline, and better fuel efficiency to boot. What was the price of that? More air pollution, of course.
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