Oil & Fuel Fuel issue solved..??

[LBrown59]

Red dye is added to any motor fuel oil that is not taxed. Any fuel that is taxed does not have red added to it. The color red _only_ indicates the tax issue, it does not have any actual relation to any other quality of the fuel whatsoever. .
Nearly all fuel suppliers do not want to stock all 6 types of fuel (heating, motor taxed & untaxed of both #1 & #2), as the cost with or without the antiwear attitives is about the same. More trips to deliver, more tanks to store, more inventory - it is cheaper for most to use the same fuel & heating oils.
So, _most_ places have dyed & undyed which supplies either furnace or engine use.
Of late we have gone to low sulfur, and now ultralow sulfur diesel. Again, most heating fuels have followed suit because it is easier to make, transport, & store all the same stuff, instead of 23 different types.

That's what I've been saying all along but some folks seem to want to hang onto the old dead 23 variation concept.
Myths and old wives tales die hard.

 

[TomOfTarsus]

Anti-wear additives? Wear is my enemy, I want to have this beauty until we see ol' Scratch putting on hat, scarf, overcoat & ice skates! It wouldn't be worth the $0.20/gal. to me.

But the way y'all have phrased it makes me ask - How do I know the anti-wear additives are in there?

My local gas station has a truck fueling station, should I ask, or just assume that they're using the good stuff?

Thanks all. Note siggie. Newbie has his tractor, and I haven't rolled it yet!

 

[LBrown59]

Anti-wear additives? Wear is my enemy, I want to have this beauty until we see ol' Scratch putting on hat, scarf, overcoat & ice skates. 1*It wouldn't be worth the $0.20/gal. to me.

But the way y'all have phrased it makes me ask - 2*How do I know the anti-wear additives are in there?

My local gas station has a truck fueling station.3* Should I ask, or just assume that they're using the good stuff?

1*All the 20 cents is for if is the sales tax.You're getting the same fuel either way.
I have a 5 gallon can of fuel here.
I will pour a gallon of it in a red can add a touch of dye to it and let you have it for $3.00 or i will pour the gallon into a white can and let you have it for $3.20
Do you want the red can or do you want the white one?
2*Because they were in there before they added the red dye and because they were in there before they subtracted the sales tax.
3* There's only 1 stuff.

 

[TomOfTarsus]

So you're saying the anti-wear additives are in the heating oil, too?

Then all I have to do is find out if the heating oil guys are more than $2.00 further away than the gas station. (10 gal. at $0.20/gal). Unless the tax is even higher here in Taxylvania - oops! I mean, Pennsylvaina!

 

[LBrown59]

*Since we only have 1 fuel here they'd have to be in there no matter what you called it wouldn't they!
You could call it monkey juice and it'd still have the same ingredients in it~would it not?
== L B ==

*So you're saying the anti-wear additives are in the heating oil, too?

Then all I have to do is find out if the heating oil guys are more than $2.00 further away than the gas station. (10 gal. at $0.20/gal). Unless the tax is even higher here in Taxylvania - oops! I mean, Pennsylvaina!

There is 40 to 45 cents difference between taxed and non taxed fuel here.

 

[LBrown59]

Then all I have to do is find out if the heating oil outfits are more than $2.00 further away than the gas station.

Here we have 2 heating outfits and several gas stations all in the same general area and within a few blocks of each other.It don't cost any more time wise or driving expense wise to shop any one of them over another of them so may as well buy from the ones who have it for 40 to 45 cents per gallon less for the same thing.

 

[TomOfTarsus]

So don't think I won't be looking. Thanks!