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Originally Posted by hankaye
Howdy All;
Just figured I'd throw in my 2 pennies.
Here in Central Utah price of diesel is hovering around $4.20 (5gal X$4.20 = $21.00) My tank holds 42 gal. or $176.00 for a compleate fill-up).
I try harder to fill near 1/2 tank more these days.
The part that bugs me is that diesel has less refining to it than gas.
The refining tree (as it were), is roughly diesel/ fuel oil (for your furness of "Off road <farm tractors, etc>), then afew other concoctions then right
near the end of the process is gasoline...
Kind of like buying Ladies lingerie ... The less there is the more it costs. 
hankaye |
Hank,
You are almost correct. But off-road diesel and on highway diesel is refined at the same time. The only difference is the off-road diesel does not have road tax applied and is dyed red. The large refiners are under mandate to refine all diesel to 15 PPM as of 2010. I do not know what classifies a small refiner but they do not have to comply until 2014.
See attached link:
http://www.clean-diesel.org/nonroad.html
The cost of refining two different grades of diesel and shipping to a terminal would be enormous and would lead to confusion. So off-road diesel will be 15 PPM the same as on highway unless it is left over from prior years.
Jim W.