--- In [email protected], "Colin Shepherd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:hedgi.t21%40btinternet.com> t.com bty465680 > writes: > >(going to be cheaper after Novemeber, wonder who'll order > >the first batch of petrol driven narrowboats - but that's > >another story). > > >Nobody, I hope. The exhaust of petrol-engined boats STINKS! > > >Dave > >NB Uncontroversial > > > > As with diesel cars the extra efficiency (or whatever) of diesel engines > will outweigh the additional cost and a tankfull of diesel is safer thank a > tankfull of petrol. > > > > Colin
I am not convinced of that now the differential is up to about 10p per litre and I suspect the differential will get larger because diesel, jet fuel and heating oil all seem to come from the same fractions of the crude oil. Tony Brooks
