ABSTRACT
Therefore the roles reversed. Gasoline became the dominant petroleum product with kerosene as a “throwaway.” Kerosene has made a comeback since the 1960s, due to the increasing dominance of jet aircraft for civilian air transport (jet fuel is basically a rened form of kerosene), but in many countries, gasoline is still the main petroleum product by far. In recent decades, another factor has come into play, the increasing “dieselization” of the eet of cars and light trucks throughout the world. This change, which has proceeded to different extents in different parts of the world, has caused an increase in demand for diesel fuel at the expense of gasoline. In the United States, the light vehicle eet is still dominated by gasoline engines.
