- News ## Texas Declares 'Statewide Disaster' Over Diesel Prices, Allows Truckers To Fill Up With Home Heating Oil Diesel prices are bad right now — record-setting bad, industry-altering bad — and when prices get bad, people start to look for alternatives. For diesel, that alternative usually comes in the form of home heating oil, which is cheaper to buy but illegal to run in a motor vehicle — unless, that is, you live in Texas. Governor Greg Abbott, not a man usually known for his smart decision-making, on Monday declared diesel prices to be a "statewide disaster" that necessitated…