The guberment doesnt want anyone using diesel...its evil. You wont likely see the price below gasoline ever again.

I bought diesel for 3.25 a gallon yesterday in arena Wisconsin at a BP station.gas was 2.73 for regullar.

Then you must not pay attention. My 7.3s take 15 quarts of oil and large expensive filter. That's a lot more tahn any gas motor I have ever had. Maybe get 20 mpg or so max less pulling and more expensive fuel..

Yes some things cost the same like tires and some parts other parts cost more being heavier to support heavier motor and torque.

New or smaller diesel may be different i only have experience with Fords 7.3s both idi and turbo.

I bought it for $3.20 this morning. Half mile away it is $3.99

Kwik Trip pretty much controls Wisconsin.They bully the other stations with low prices and jack the consumer in areas with less competition.

Kwik trips here in St. Cloud, MN have prices $0.30 to $0.60 higher than their nearby competition. I have no idea why anyone would buy gas there. Yesterday, I filled up for $2.65, Kwik Trip was $3.09!

My employees have company credit cards for fuel and kwik trip has good snacks

Walmart 87 octane gas here is 2.65, diesel is 3.25. Across the street at Royal Farms gas is 2.79, diesel 3.69. It depends a lot where you buy your fuel.

Depends on how you figure it. As PF stated, the 7.3 Fords (I used to own one) took 15 quarts of oil, my 6.7 Cummins only takes 12. On the plus side I only change it every 7500 miles, to be fair I only change the synthetic oil in my newer Tacoma every 7500 also, but every previous gas rig I've changed the oil every 3000. If you have any work done on a diesel at a shop, it costs a lot more than the same work done on a gas rig. On the plus side I know a lot of guys getting 500-600,000 miles out of their Cummins without a rebuild. By that time the rest of the truck has pretty much fallen apart around the motor and they usually replace the truck even if the motor is stilling running fine. Not many gas rigs you'll do that with, and none that I know of with comparable pulling and hauling power get that kind of longevity. Doing work yourself it is a crapshoot whether parts are more expensive or comparable to a gas rig, depends on the part. Transmissions built for diesels (some run the same tranny as their gas counterpart, but tend to have more issues because of the added torque) tend to be much more expensive to work on for example.

Good diesels (there are some junk diesel motors out there that are constantly broken down, I'm not naming names though, I'll let someone else do that )tend to get more miles with less up keep, but the up keep is more expensive. They get better fuel mileage, but since the government has become anti diesel the fuel costs more. All those costs end up probably being close to a wash, with the edge going to diesels I figure. But the initial cost of buying a diesel is higher (much higher on the used market, they hold their value much better). So unless you have an actual use and reason to own a diesel it may be cheaper in the long run to buy a gas. Big diesel trucks have become a fad, which is annoying but actually great for those of us who actually have a use for one and don't have/don't want to spend the money on a new one. There are lots of gently used (read commuter vehicles who have never seen a trailer or heavy load in their life) diesels out there for sale, used to be the only diesels were work rigs, and when they came up for sale used they had been rode hard and put away wet.

it has finally gotten under $3 a gallon here for the most part. Unleaded 87 octane is 2.33 a gallon where I live.

It should be way cheaper. It’s only higher due to the additives for low sulfur emissions.