Ich habe kürzlich gelernt, das in den USA Diesel unattraktiv gemacht

wird,

weil die Soße, die sie beim Fracking gewinnen, praktisch kein

Dieselöl

enthält. Diesel wird dadurch knapp und teuer, und damit das keinem
auffällt hat man die Kampagne gegen Dieselfahrzeuge gestartet.

Hallo SchlauFuchs,
Deine Aussage würde bedeuten, daß das Fracking-Öl auch nicht als
Heizöl zu gebrauchen wäre, sind Heizöl und Diesel doch identisch. So
recht kann ich das nicht glauben.

Gruß Dieter

Hier eine Aussage von Morgan Stanley:

Shale Oil's Limitations

But shale oil, it turns out, brings with it a variety of elements that lower the octane levels of a gasoline blend, like naphtha. The ultra-light color that at first excited shale drillers — the light, sweet crude that had become harder to find from conventional sources — reflects shale oil's higher proportions of natural gas liquids and other easy-to-ignite hydrocarbons.

“Our thesis is that the U.S. refining system is close to being maxed-out on the amount of shale oil it can process,” a Morgan Stanley research note concluded this month, citing shale oil's light hue, which makes it ill-suited to make high octane gas, as well as jet fuel and diesel.

“The more shale oil we run, so to speak, the more difficult it is to get that high percentage octane,” Tom Kloza, Global Head of Energy Analysis at IHS's Oil Price Information Service, told the Energy Information Administration's (EIA) annual conference last year. “Ironically, we’re not going to be using more fuel in the U.S. in the next 5 years, but we’ll need more octane, at least until more cars run on electricity.”

Drivers can already see the impacts of the shale rush at the pump, with the difference between regular and premium prices reaching over 50 cents a gallon across the U.S. In some cities, like Chicago, where most gasoline comes from shale oil, the difference is over 75 cents a gallon. Back in 2000, the difference between regular and premium was just 18 cents a gallon.

“We're kind of out of sources for octane, at the moment, having run the gambit of everything we can think of,” said Lynn Westfall at 2017 EIA Energy Conference during a presentation titled “Gasoline fuel quality: The looming octane shortage.”<<