Diesel has a 3% tax surcharge on top of petrol in the UK at the oumps, and diesel powered cars are more expensive to buy and tax too, again because of a charge. ULSD is several pence per litre more expensive to buy by about 16 cents. So we have the same issues with break even mileage, but the economy and torque of the smaller engines that encourage owners, and for the larger engines the range difference of up to 200 miles per tank between a petrol V8 and a 6-cyl twin turbo diesel is a big deal breaker for many SUV owners, hence the increasing number of car makers dropping petrol variants completely from the UK and other parts of Europe.
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