droy
Silver Member
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( There is NO difference between "off road" and regular diesel...they are the same product.....NO higher sulfur content diesel is being refined in the US....The only difference is that "off road" is dyed with AR dye...Automated Red dye....same stuff that makes transmission fluid red....colored red to help the inspection stations find tax cheats....BIG fine....if you are caught.... )</font>
I retired from from Sentinel Transportation (Conoco's Transportation Department) right at the time of the Conoco/ Phillips merger. Our terminal was servicing the Lake Charles La. refinery, supplying crude oil, and trucking out the finished products; motor oils, gear oils, off spec diesel, AND the high sulphur diesel. When Big Brother EPA mandated that "on road" diesel have a low sulphur content, it would have cost major big bucks, and down time, to enable the refinery to produce the low sulphur fuel. Can't speak for now, but back when I was working, when our terminal needed fuel for our shore tank, we had to hire an outside carrier go to the nearby Citgo refinery and pickup a load. Could not chance anyone seeing a Conoco truck loading up at Citgo.
I retired from from Sentinel Transportation (Conoco's Transportation Department) right at the time of the Conoco/ Phillips merger. Our terminal was servicing the Lake Charles La. refinery, supplying crude oil, and trucking out the finished products; motor oils, gear oils, off spec diesel, AND the high sulphur diesel. When Big Brother EPA mandated that "on road" diesel have a low sulphur content, it would have cost major big bucks, and down time, to enable the refinery to produce the low sulphur fuel. Can't speak for now, but back when I was working, when our terminal needed fuel for our shore tank, we had to hire an outside carrier go to the nearby Citgo refinery and pickup a load. Could not chance anyone seeing a Conoco truck loading up at Citgo.
