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Originally Posted by xit2050
Petrol prices are slowly moving towards $10 per gallon here in Belgium and many other European countries... so keeping in mind that diesel costs less than petrol and that you can do more kilometers with the same amount of fuel, people choose diesel engines.
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Not only that, some countries such as UK levies annual road tax base on CO2 emissions. As diesel have lower CO2 emissions than equivalent petrol engined counterparts, it always makes financial sense to go diesel.