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Originally Posted by Jim B+
its almost the same as home heating oil...in fact, they used to add red dye to home heating oil to keep it out of the tanks of road-use vehicles.
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The dsl we use is #2. Home heating oil is #1 a higher refined dsl. In AK I ran my comercial fishing vessel on #1 in winter. More money but less gell probs.
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I also wonder how much military step-up has affected the amount of diesel available for the civilian market...although a surprising amount of unlikely military vehicles actually burn a version of aviation fuel.
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A lot. JP4/5 is still in the dsl family as is kerosene and jet fuel is just a higher refined form of the other. All comes from the same hole in the ground. You bet all the tanks, APC's, helos, jets, ships, cargo aircraft and whatever is working in Iraq now has increased oil consumption. Just look at all the MSC civilian ships supporting the war making runs back and forth. Wars run on oil....ours or theirs it doesn't matter it all effects the market.