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Diesel to surpass natural gas as #1 fuel by 2020

Diesel is going to remain the “dominant” growth fuel in transportation on earth for several decades to come, according to U.S. and international energy and transportation experts.

ExxonMobil estimates that diesel will surpass  natural gas as the number one global transportation fuel by 2020. Diesel demand will account for 70 percent of the growth in demand for all transportation fuels through the forecast period to 2040.

petrol price probe by OFT

The consumer and competition authority is asking for information on the UK petrol and diesel sector from industry, leading motoring groups and consumer bodies.

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) anticipates gathering enough data to further investigate claims of whether the fall in the prices of crude oil are being reflected at the pumps.

Buy a petrol not a diesel; warns car auctioneer


The leading car auctioneer, BCA, has warned that buying a diesel car to save money in the long run might not always to be best option for private buyers. It says that, although a diesel version of a car will sell for more than the equivalent petrol version at resale time (mostly because it would have been around £1,000 more to buy new), the petrol may actually lose a smaller proportion of its value.Tony Gannon, BCA Communications Director commented, “There can be little argument that the average price of a diesel car always outperforms that of a similar average petrol model… However, when looking at the retained value over the typical 40 month working life of a volume fleet & lease car, the petrol car – perhaps surprisingly – is the stronger performer by some three percentage points.”

DPF Cleaner-any good?

Well by now with all the press and TV coverage (oh and here at Bloody Cars) you must be aware of the issues with DPF -Diesel Particulate Filter- problems.

Cars doing local runs are just not getting hot enough or running long enough for the regeneration to start.

DPF Warning light on?

DPF Filter
You may or may not be aware that Diesel cars now have fitted an item called a DPF (Diesel Particulate Filter). What this does is help to clean up diesel emissions, and they do it very well as most modern diesel cars have almost zero emissions. In fact MOT stations had to upgrade their Emissions Testing equipment because of this.