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How Fuel Prices Push People to Alternatives

kmakar

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I find it interesting how some people are looking for fuel alternatives just now when these alternatives had already been in use for some time.

This video is 6 months old, but the link below that shows I was already doing that before 2014 with great success. Black diesel as it's called was costing me around $1.10 a gallon to produce, but more people started seeing the benefits and sucked up all my sources of WMO by paying cash for it, and I'm talking about them paying $2.00 a gallon (or more) for waste motor oil. That's when I dumped out of it because it was no longer cost effective.


 
Just a little side note, in the 90's when I was at Accurate AC & Mechanical we use to change out a lot of kerosene burning furnaces to central ac systems and would always end up with left over kerosene that we normally gave to the landlord of our window unit/small shop for his tractor & frontend loader and I gave 35-40 gal to a good friends SIL for his Ford dually, I guess the kerosene burned just fine in those engines, #1 & #2 IIRC ? one of those are cheaper though? I'm a Diesel Dummy lol
 
Just a little side note, in the 90's when I was at Accurate AC & Mechanical we use to change out a lot of kerosene burning furnaces to central ac systems and would always end up with left over kerosene that we normally gave to the landlord of our window unit/small shop for his tractor & frontend loader and I gave 35-40 gal to a good friends SIL for his Ford dually, I guess the kerosene burned just fine in those engines, #1 & #2 IIRC ? one of those are cheaper though? I'm a Diesel Dummy lol

Kerosene is #1 diesel and has slightly less power compared to #2 diesel. Mostly in the older diesel engines if the oil is capable of being sprayed, it can run, but will have different power output depending on the oil.
 
I always though kerosene was slightly different from #1 diesel. We have different pumps for it up here.
 
I always though kerosene was slightly different from #1 diesel. We have different pumps for it up here.

My understanding is #2 fuel oil is the same as #2 diesel only with additives, and #1 is a thinner lighter weight without lubricating properties (like for an engine).
 
#2 fuel oil & off highway #2 diesel are the same, dyed red so they can check big rigs to make sure they are paying road tax. Pretty big deal if you have red fuel in your highway rig.
 
#2 fuel oil & off highway #2 diesel are the same, dyed red so they can check big rigs to make sure they are paying road tax. Pretty big deal if you have red fuel in your highway rig.

When I lived in CT I did a job to pipe #2 fuel oil from his indoor tanks to a pump with a nozzle so the client could pump it right into his truck (F250 diesel). I didn't care what he did with it, I just did the piping and wiring.
 
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