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Originally Posted by 3300 MAYFAIR
That's KINDA right
I drive a diesel truck, and I'm pretty up on the fuel.
Diesel fuel is a BY-Product that comes from the refining of gasoline. THAT'S why it was always less expensive. There was more of it, and it required LESS refining than gasoline.
Fast forward to last year.
Now we have ULSD ( Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel ). Refineries now have to remove the sulphur from diesel fuel to comply with new laws. This removal process also removes the lubrication of the fuel, but I won't even get into that, however a new lube now has to be added.
Also keep in mind that there is ZERO difference between diesel fuel and home heating oil. Home heating oil has a red dye put into it so that if it's found in a trucks tank the driver will be heavily fined. The reason why home heating oil is a little less expensive is because it isn't subjected to the road tax that standard diesel fuel is.
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I hope you're right about diesel and home heating oil, because it would be great to be able to use biodiesel in both.
Read something today about 12% of world oil going to fuel US motor vehicles. That's a lot of demand, so surely the falloff in gasoline demand recently in the US will have some effect on oil prices from a supply-demand viewpoint. Maybe not a huge one right away, but it will make a difference over time.
What would speed up this process would be running more diesel vehicles on biodiesel or installing biodiesel converters in diesel cars and trucks. A few people from Fishtown have done the latter, or are in the process of doing it (
http://fishtown.us/node/9246) through a local company. Why wait around for the feds to do something big and ineffectual like release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves, when you can take yourself of the gasoline grid right now?