terex herder
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Yep, and give me Ethyl if she's workin'.
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Buying red diesel
- Thread starter bdog1234
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colson04
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What was Ethyl? Another name for higher octane?
DMiller
Senior Member
Now Colson, ain’t that young!!
Ethyl for Tetraethyl Lead premium gas.
Ethyl for Tetraethyl Lead premium gas.
DMiller
Senior Member
Knew a rather frisky gal named Ethel once, she was married to someone else, but a willing soul for some odd reason for Others too!!
DMiller
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Can still remember buying Av Gas at 110 Octane for Race weekends!!! Engines ran Cooler!!
Coaldust
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$7.62 for 100LL today at Lake Hood. Seriously, that sounds like a bargain, considering current RUG and ULSD prices.
Truck Shop
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A Pacific Pride main office here had LL100 at the card lock, you just had to ask and they would turn
the pump on.
the pump on.
aighead
Senior Member
That's the kind of Ethyl I thought of immediately, didn't know of the other fuel type of Ethyl...
That's probably the law governing the merchants too. But here they are allowed and WILL deliver to your stead whatever quantity of (red) heating-oil which like road diesel at 'the pumps' changes in level-of-refinement with current temperature while remaining exactly the same product except for the red dye. The dye BTW fades out if you leave the stuff in transparent containers in the sun, ESPECIALLY in Texas I would suspect
DMiller
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Delivery is simple, Same Truck, Same load of ULSD is pumped to tanks, driver adds red dye after filling Your Tank into Your Tank, they do not haul Red Fuel in trucks here, just add dye to your tank load after filling.
terex herder
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Interesting on the dye there. I was led to believe the refinery at McPherson adds the dye before the fuel goes into the pipeline.
cfherrman
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They at least add it before the fuel truck
DMiller
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Can’t, would infiltrate every other product, indiscriminate as to migration. Kind of like adding odorant to LP at the pipeline drop stations as also ship Anhydrous in those lines.
DMiller
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Driver carries the dye, no other way it would not line every tank, hose or fitting and contaminate any other load.
cfherrman
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I certainly do not know, but I do know that it won't contaminate from my opps experiences.
DMiller
Senior Member
Ethanol is another problem child, cannot ship by pipeline, use water slugs to separate products, alcohol is water soluble and would migrate away from gasoline, Truck Tanker or Tank Rail car loads or shipboard only.
DMiller
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Red fuel delivered to AK by boat I can see as transported that way, here by Trailer or bulk truck the only difference is after the driver adds the dye to the delivered load and the bill removes the Fed tax.
Coaldust
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I haven’t seen dyed fuel oil in Alaska since the prudhoe bay crude distillery unit closed, a long time ago. Anyone recall when that was? It wasn’t red, either. It was the brightest, neon pink, koolaid you ever laid eyes on. Plus, the API was abnormally high, as I recall. Ranging from 48-50.