[TachusGTI]

Is this for farm equipment or something... I used to live in OC and we didn't have this kind of fuel at the gas stations

 

[jetta2.8]

That's different. Maybe it has additives for less pollusion or something. :screwy:

 

[Cr4shT3st]

It's the same thing as regular diesel, just not taxed. It's also dyed so they can catch you if you're a farmer using it in your highway vehicles.

 

[dunhamjr]

It's the same thing as regular diesel, just not taxed. It's also dyed so they can catch you if you're a farmer using it in your highway vehicles.

this.
i think they dye it red.

 

[ATL_Av8r]

It's the same thing as regular diesel, just not taxed. It's also dyed so they can catch you if you're a farmer using it in your highway vehicles.

They can also catch if you are NOT a farmer and using it in your highway vehicles.

 

[cougar]

They can also catch if you are NOT a farmer and using it in your highway vehicles.

:laugh::thumbup:

 

[Air and water do mix]

Yes on the 'no taxes applied' and yes to the 'red'.

It's diesel for farm equipment (and perhaps other utility engines) only. No street driven vehicles are allowed to run it and the dye shows what you've done. I don't know how long the dye will stay in the system. ("I just bought it and it must have been like that! Honest, officer!" )

 

[Ernie McCracken]

How do they enforce it? If you drive a diesel and are pulled over, does the officer automatically check for dyed fuel?

 

[ATL_Av8r]

How do they enforce it? If you drive a diesel and are pulled over, does the officer automatically check for dyed fuel?

dipstick/visual inspection...oh, and it smells like strawberry Jolly Rancher.

okay...maybe not that last part

 

[Air and water do mix]

How do they enforce it? If you drive a diesel and are pulled over, does the officer automatically check for dyed fuel?

I'm sure some do. It stains the tailpipe.

 

[Air and water do mix]

oh, and it smells like strawberry Jolly Rancher.

okay...maybe not that last part

:laugh:

 

[TachusGTI]

Ok then.

 

[winstonsmith84]

I've never heard of "regular" guys getting busted for using off road fuel, but I know it could happen. With the mix of grease and home made bio-diesel out there on the roads now, fuel tax spot inspcetions are a bit more complicated.

In reality, as I understand it, there is no difference in the eyes of the law between off road diesel and grease conversions.

You can't pull up to the co-op and get off road diesel in your truck. Tractors and tanks only.

 

[dunhamjr]

How do they enforce it? If you drive a diesel and are pulled over, does the officer automatically check for dyed fuel?

WA State:
never had anyone look at the fuel color in my diesels at a traffic stop or every other year inspections.

 

[audiphile]

City folk :laugh:

 

[Elbows]

That explains the various coloured diesels I fill up generators with at work. I always imagined the diesel was just dyed different colours by manufacturers. Interesting. :thumbup:

 

[Crispyfritter]

Actually bought an old Golf diesel that I thought had bad fuel in it, so when I emptied the tank, I found that it was full of red diesel fuel. Come to find out, this guy had been filling it up with the farming stuff.

Chris

 

[Troike]

on a related note ... was with my Father (owns a TDI) and noticed the gas station said "Diesel #2" , he couldn't answer me what #1 is, or how many #s of diesel there are ...

obviously there's (regular) passenger-car (#2 I assume) ... and now off-road diesel.
Probably another type for ships/generators; maybe a different type for Trucks (semis/18-wheelers) ... ?

 

[strictlyA2]

I think the fine 'round these parts is $1000/ gallon.

Someone correct me if I am wrong here but isn't the sulphur content considerably higher in off road diesel?

 

[chucchinchilla]

They can also catch if you are NOT a farmer and using it in your highway vehicles.

:thumbup::laugh: