ELI5, why does diesel cost so much more than petrol if it’s easier to refine from crude oil?

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ELI5, why does diesel cost so much more than petrol if it’s easier to refine from crude oil?

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That’s only a thing in the USA. In Europe it’s cheaper but here for some reason it’s made artificial more expensive.
In 84% of all countries diesel is cheaper than gas so this shows that it’s an artificial price they use to make diesel more expensive to discourage people from buying it.
They might do it because it’s harder to clean the exhaust of diesel and want to get rid of the old polluting trucks we have.