10 miles per gallon city/country.

[shocktower]

Yeah, of course if you deliver fuel for a living and want to sound educated and cool when you're flirting with someone's girlfriend you'd know that that #1 off road only and #2 low sulfur are the exact same thing but they add red dye to the off road only LOL... SOB has my girlfriend convinced of it. I tried telling her he's a tool and knows nothing but she can't comprehend that he only delivers fuel...doesn't make it lol. I tried asking her a logical question and she couldn't answer it...I asked why the refinery would take the exact same fuel add red dye which costs extra money and then sell it for something like $.75 a gallon cheaper? Does that sound logical? Spend more money and sell for
Less? Apparently he couldn't give a legitimate answer either. Anyway, I have known some people who ran ORD in their daily drivers, not environmentally sound practice but it sure would be nice to pay so little for fuel.

BTW it is also heating oil, but shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[I Lean]

Yeah, of course if you deliver fuel for a living and want to sound educated and cool when you're flirting with someone's girlfriend you'd know that that #1 off road only and #2 low sulfur are the exact same thing but they add red dye to the off road only LOL... SOB has my girlfriend convinced of it. I tried telling her he's a tool and knows nothing but she can't comprehend that he only delivers fuel...doesn't make it lol. I tried asking her a logical question and she couldn't answer it...I asked why the refinery would take the exact same fuel add red dye which costs extra money and then sell it for something like $.75 a gallon cheaper? Does that sound logical? Spend more money and sell for
Less? Apparently he couldn't give a legitimate answer either. Anyway, I have known some people who ran ORD in their daily drivers, not environmentally sound practice but it sure would be nice to pay so little for fuel.

Pretty sure the difference is in the taxes collected on the fuel. I'm sure the oil company still makes their money on it, but the Fed/State/City/whoever don't get to collect "road" taxes on it, since it is never to be used on any roads.

 

[ScottLX450]

Dindinding no taxes. Other than red dye it is the same.

Pretty sure the difference is in the taxes collected on the fuel. I'm sure the oil company still makes their money on it, but the Fed/State/City/whoever don't get to collect "road" taxes on it, since it is never to be used on any roads.

 

[BILT4ME]

Yes, it's all about the taxes.

The red dye in the fuel is so that if a DOT person catches a truck driver or anyone in a registered pickup that is diesel, they can fine the living crap out of them for using the non-taxed fuel in their diesel rig.

Living on the farm, we had 1000 gallon barrels of off-road diesel for our tractors. We could NOT run it in any of the truck, because it only takes ONCE from the DOT to fine you and it will quickly offset the cost of ALL your diesel.

The fuel is the same. #1 to run in the winter when it's cold, #2 to run in the summer. If you try to run #2 in the winter, it will gel up and you won't run anymore. And, yes, it is the SAME for heating oil, because the furnace in our farmhouse ran on the SAME diesel as our tractors.

Wish I had a diesel in my Land Cruiser...... I only get 13-14 MPG in my 96 petrol......

 

[TNNPIG]

Cool. Doesn't diesel now cost twice as much as gasoline?

Here in middle Tennessee gas is $1.99 and diesel is $2.29

 

[LandCruisinMy93]

Funny, I always read reports and pump placards stating that Off-road didn't have to adhere to the same sulfur content. Meaning the off road diesel pumps had placards saying they had to comply with the new 350 ppm sulfur standard which #2 used to have to conform to before Ultra low sulfur diesel... the new stuff that easily grows algae if left for a while had to go down to 15ppm. Then again there is more than one grade of off-road also. Maybe I'm wrong and what we commonly have at Pacific pride and CFN for off-road isn't the ag-marine and locomotive off road type.

Edit: apparently those standards were supposed to have changed in 2012 to all diesel being ULSD. Seems my information is old.

 

[LandCruisinMy93]

Here in middle Tennessee gas is $1.99 and diesel is $2.29

Here locally regular is between $2.59-$2.79 and diesel is $2.65-$2.75 as of an hour ago.