Gas or Diesel?

      The eternal debate between all car owners.  Which is the best? Diesel or Gasoline?  There are many benefits and draw-backs to both options.

Diesel-  The stuff of torque monsters.  Diesel is used in motors that rely on much higher compression levels in the cylinders to ignite the fuel, thus creating much higher torsion power.  What this allows diesel motors to do is pull much heavier loads more efficiently than gasoline.  Diesel is also much more stable than gasoline is when being stored, thus making it easier to transport.  Another good thing about it is that it takes less to refine diesel, and there are no varying levels of octane grades, so no performance advantage or disadvantage comes from the price or octane rating of the fuel.  The cons about diesel is that the exhaust can be much dirtier than gasoline, and since they make less of it, it is usually more expensive than gasoline.

Gasoline-  This stuff is how nearly everybody gets around.  It's power is harnessed through injecting it into a lower compression ratio, and then ignited with a spark plug.  It is much more volatile than diesel, and allows for more power in the realm of speed.  The higher the octane grade of the fuel, the better the fuel performs in the engine.  This varying in qualities allows for consumer-specific applications, since drag racers running setups with up to 120 octane, don't want normal pump gas, and the everyday driver doesn't need nitromethane to power their cars.

I would say that I am a double fan, it all depends on what the situation call for.