Crud oil price is not rising as fast as diesel fuel. Up here in eastern Canada. Up to about 4.00 an American gallon as of yesterday. Fortunately I am not concerned as in our newer diesels all the fuel is well covered by expense accounts. In fact starting tomorrow the heavy highway runs resume after the virus situation shut them down for months.

I do have a full 200 Canadian gallon tank of furnace oil in the basement. The heat pump surprised me and meets the load of the house just fine alone.

I was wondering if I used 3/4 diesel fuel oil and added 1/4 of the furnace oil and perhaps a small amount of new vegetable oil. Could there be an issue with the old 123 type diesel engines doing so? I cannot risk any kind of mix in the more modern diesels.

It would be even better if I could use 2/3 diesel fuel and 1/3 furnace oil plus say six ounces of new vegetable oil.

We were told both products are the same in this region other than coloring is added. It may even be true as one vendor locally was fined 15K for not adding the coloring.

What do you fellows think?

I want to get rid of the furnace oil. By doing so I hope to also get the home insurance policy down a little. Few burn furnace oil up here now with the cost of it. I estimate it costs about 150.00 a month to heat this large house using the heat pump. During the heating season. Versus perhaps 500.00 a month for furnace oil at around the peak prices.

This cheap fuel is rising fast here. I doubt it will go back down again.