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The reason why diesel is cheaper than gasoline here is because it's taxed lower than gasoline
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It works differently in different countries.
Lower taxation on diesel plus better fuel consuption led to a large switch in some places so the governments hiked duty on diesel to make up for their resulting lower tax reciepts from petrol.
Other governments view it in relation to the proportion of diesel/petrol users who are claiming fuel as tax deductable and adjust their fuel duty accordingly as there is no point taxing something when people can not only claim the fuel tax back but also write off the whole fuel cost as a deductable expense against income and business tax.
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Still, that doesn't account for the inexcusably bad fuel efficiency of US vehicles.
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There are a lot of factors , the driving cycle you mention is just one , others that are often thrown in are transmission and A/C but both of those you can compare with comparable automatics with all the extras you could possibly contemplate ...none of which accounts for the bad performance of cars on the US market in terms of fuel consumption