[Minnie's Mate]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it, a barrel of crude contains so many gallons of refined gasoline and so many gallons of refined diesel. You can boil a few more gallons of diesel down into gasoline out of that barrel using catalyst, but you can't really go backward and "de-refine" gasoline into diesel.

So, under this model, if we all switched to diesels in this country wouldn't we see a shortage (perceived or real) of diesel and a sufficient amount of gasoline kind of like we used to see a surplus of diesel but no excess of gasoline?

So is diesel really our future?