diesel fuel question
I am concerned about the diesel fuel I put into my 3500 Ram. It seems like more and more fuel providers like Flying J, pilot,WalMart,and Loves are selling the biofuels. SO far I just find another sour...
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gmcsmoke wrote:
that's why I have a rolling chem lab in the bed of my truck. I extract a sample from the pump test the WIF content, biodiesel and cetane value. this test typically takes about 30 minutes to complete but if it doesn't meet my rigid standards I move to the next station. Yeah it takes me the better part of the day to fill up but at least I know I'm getting top quality fuel.
Now that is funny! :B
iawoody2 wrote:Even after you said that, some guys are still mixing it up. Sugar cane is only for gas/alcohol too. I don't think corn has enough oil to warrant replacement/supplement of diesel, could be wrong.
Corn is for gasoline. Soybeans are for bio diesel.
On the bright side, I recently read where Texaco has been working on multifuel military engines for quite a while (since the '70's). Another white paper said that it might be possible to burn gas-or-diesel in future consumer multifuel engines. Whatever is cheap. All this tech is just starting to show up outside the lab, but the crux was that the non-hybrid internal combustion engine wasn't anywheres near done competing with electricity. One would think heavy towing may demand it indefinately anyway.
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