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Posted by john in la on April 22, 2004 at 10:27:29 from (67.35.226.54):
In Reply to: Farm Fuel Dye posted by txblu on April 22, 2004 at 05:41:11:
The dye may start out as a granule (I do not know) but when it comes from the manufacture it is in a 55 gal drum. It is a thick red liquid and is marked combustible. It is added by the computer to the fuel when loading the transport truck at most racks to make sure it gets in the fuel. There is still one rack in our area that we have to add it ourselves at a rate of 1 gallon per 10,000 gallons or 1/10 gallon per 1000 gallons. Now if you take the fact that fuel tax in most states is 30-45 ¢ per gallon you will see that if you burn 2000 gallons of diesel or 2/10 gallon of dye you have saved enough to rebuild a injector pump. Now I do know people that will only burn low sulfur dyed fuel in their equipment. This is dyed truck diesel. They say it easier on the filters and pump than the high sulfur equipment diesel but that may be a personal preface.
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