Diesel here in Georgia was more expensive than premium unleaded a year ago, about the same a month ago, and 20 cents a gal cheaper now. The interesting thing is, diesel has stayed the same, around $2.80 a gallon, while gas has gone up.
Yes.
BTW diesel is only very cheap to refine when it's a marginal product, as it was in the old days.
Now that diesel demand is greater (in Europe, at least) than the proportion in which it is produced in the cracking process it has become expensive.
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There is no such thing as "no styling". Something may be bland in the eyes of the beholder, but that is a different matter.
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Exactly. Refineries can no longer get rid of unwanted sulfur by leaving it in diesel....
Look at a Scion XB or Honda Element, and then say that again with a straight face.
Oh yea, there IS such a thing as "no styling."
No styling and butt-ugly are two entirely different things. Styling is a matter of taste, the other is simply inexcusable.
With all due respect, I must disagree...
How about plain old 'bad styling' or possibly worse, 'functional styling'?
The original Beetle was styled for the functionality of that car, and with Third Reich artistic standards.
The Citroen 2CV the same, minus the Third Reich artistic constraints.
Many more examples up to the time of those you've mentioned; again, styled for the function only.
And my favourite for sheer ugliness, The Aztek. Had to pass one at my corner -- a bright yellow brick -- for many months, and frequently had to answer the question, "What in hell is /that/ monstrosity?" It too was styled for it's function.
People these days drive more 'vehicles' than 'cars', and the vehicles generally have the artistic appeal of any military vehicle. And the cars have been homogenized to aesthetically offend nobody, with the side-effect of pleasing very few. Which is why a typical highway today looks like a mass of military maneuvers mixed with mostly undifferentiateable little buglets milling around like bees in a hive or ants in a hill.
Just my $0.02 Canadian....
No, there isn't. There's "deliberately styled to look as if it was just an industrial produce", but trust me -- just as much money went into the styling of a Scion XB as a Mazda RX-8.
Piero Drago had little money but designed a car which introduced many new design features. It's at the opposite end of the scale as the most desired car of all time, the 1967 Ferrari 330 P4. Probably a lot more money went into the "style" of cars which no one wants.
Oops. I meant Piero Drogo. Very interesting story...
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