low sulfur vs ultra low sulfur

[bobcat67]

I work on an oil rig where we go through about 2500+ gallons a day of diesel fuel, we get our fuel from a local smaller distributor, a family owned operation. The only diesel fuel they can get is ULSD and has been that way for a while now, he told me the only difference between dyed vs clear fuel is they dye. I'm gonna take his word for it.

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Originally Posted by gr8shot

No they dont. Its literally IMPOSSIBLE to get low sulfer diesel now. It is not made in the US anymore and cant legally be sold anymore anyway. So
either they forgot a sticker on a pump, they're lying to you, or they're illegally selling you fuel that is well over 2 years old.


I'm pretty sure they do. One pump says high sulfer diesel, for off road use only. One says low sulfer diesel, taxable fuel, for highway use. Those pumps are off to the side by themselves, not in the row of the regular gas pumps, and the ulsd pump. I see older diesel trucks filling up with the low sulfer diesel quite a bit.

Like I said in an earlier post, unless the filing station is somehow getting their fuel from a shipyard, regardless of what the stickers say, it'll be ulsd. A sticker that says different is enough to get people who know the difference (but not enough to know its too good to be true) to use that pump to fill up.

Marine and locomotives are the only applications left in the US that have the ability to even get non-ulsd fuel. Our local co-ops, truck stops, fuel distributors etc. Can't even GET ulsd. And if they could, they're committing a federal crime if they sell it to a regular filling station. And the station is committing a federal crime by selling it to consumers. The govt will shut down the whole distribution network and every company involved will get fined out of business.

So my guess is that its most likely either someones idea of a joke, or an accident that the sticker says high sulfer diesel.

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Originally Posted by gr8shot

No they dont. Its literally IMPOSSIBLE to get low sulfer diesel now. It is not made in the US anymore and cant legally be sold anymore anyway. So
either they forgot a sticker on a pump, they're lying to you, or they're illegally selling you fuel that is well over 2 years old.


I'm pretty sure they do. One pump says high sulfer diesel, for off road use only. One says low sulfer diesel, taxable fuel, for highway use. Those pumps are off to the side by themselves, not in the row of the regular gas pumps, and the ulsd pump. I see older diesel trucks filling up with the low sulfer diesel quite a bit.

Pics and fuel test.

And this makes it automatically true because the trucks are filling up there? Or maybe their drivers just dont know that it is no different than the other pumps

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Originally Posted by BLACK-BOW-TIE

Like I said in an earlier post, unless the filing station is somehow getting their fuel from a shipyard, regardless of what the stickers say, it'll be ulsd. A sticker that says different is enough to get people who know the difference (but not enough to know its too good to be true) to use that pump to fill up.

Marine and locomotives are the only applications left in the US that have the ability to even get non-ulsd fuel. Our local co-ops, truck stops, fuel distributors etc. Can't even GET ulsd. And if they could, they're committing a federal crime if they sell it to a regular filling station. And the station is committing a federal crime by selling it to consumers. The govt will shut down the whole distribution network and every company involved will get fined out of business.

So my guess is that its most likely either someones idea of a joke, or an accident that the sticker says high sulfer diesel.

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Jesse, you mean low sulfer diesel, not ulsd, right?

Maybe that high sulfer pump is for all the trains that stop there?? Can you imagine how pissed all the train engineers are when they pull up and some hillbilly in his pickup is blocking the damn pump?

[Yellow is Good]

Originally Posted by Deming01

By the way I recieved an extra $2000 from President Obama
(alternative fuel rebate) on my new Duramax 2500HD truck, because it is capable of running B20 biodiesel.

You have to trade a GAS pickup for the diesel in order to qualify.

offer ended 10-30-2012.

My total rebates off of Invoice were ---$8750.

Good Deal !!!

Happy you received some of your tax dollars back, not sure if it was a good deal....

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Originally Posted by gr8shot

Jesse, you mean low sulfer diesel, not ulsd, right?

Maybe that high sulfer pump is for all the trains that stop there?? Can you imagine how pissed all the train engineers are when they pull up and some hillbilly in his pickup is blocking the damn pump?

Yes LSD not ulsd. Nice catch

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Originally Posted by BLACK-BOW-TIE

I'm pretty sure they do. One pump says high sulfer diesel, for off road use only. One says low sulfer diesel, taxable fuel, for highway use. Those pumps are off to the side by themselves, not in the row of the regular gas pumps, and the ulsd pump. I see older diesel trucks filling up with the low sulfer diesel quite a bit.

pics or GTFO

[BLACK-BOW-TIE]

I'll go over there when I get off work and take some pics.

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Here are the pics.

[IMG]http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u563/khfduramax/moto_0054.jpg[/IMG]

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