My diesel has no sulfur.
Ben near Detroit.
On 11/2/2011 10:16 AM, audiolaw@aol.com wrote:
>
> It should also be noted that we in the U.S. started using "ultra
> low sulfur" diesel more than a decade after Europe did. So Mercedes
> and other companies had more than a decade to sort out the changes
> needed in machines to accommodate the cleaner fuel.
> As a separate, but also important factor, what we in the U.S. call
> "ultra low sulfur" fuel is VASTLY higher in sulfur than what Europe
> calls low sulfur fuel. Adding the word "ultra" to the name doesn't
> change the scientific realities.
> Tom
> In a message dated 11/2/2011 3:30:10 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> doug.traylor@cebridge.net writes:
>
> * Here is a large part of the answer as too why Diesel Fuel is so
> much more expensive than gasoline,, we have small mountains of
> sulfur along the ship channel here in Houston area, as per the
> EPA, they have to refine almost all the sulfur from the Diesel
> fuel,too make ultra low sulfur fuels,,thats very expensive, an
> then someone has too store all that huge amount of sulfur, thats
> very expensive, too much of it, an nothing its good for either.
> So, NOW we pay at the pump.*
> **
> * Back in the good old days of cheap Diesel fuel, all that sulfur
> went out the tailpipe as pollution, an eventually acid rain an
> such,,, you guys from California should remember, an know that
> clean air costs us all money,, ya do remember CARB right, well its
> all over Texas too now, we pay about 50 cents a gallon of Diesel
> for cleaner air, which is rare around Houston..*
> **
> * My concern, being a long time Diesel Tech /Instructor, is what
> is the long term effect upon my darling 300d s fuel system, an
> pistons, maybe valves. Will my like new running engine still last
> forever with the ultra low sulfur or not,, thats a good question. *
> **
> * So bottom line, now we are having too pay a lot extra for the
> ultra low sulfur Diesel fuel, is it worth the cost, in cancer
> rate, an are we loosing part of the energy in the fuel at the same
> time. Our exhaust systems should last longer, without all the
> sulfuric acid coming thu. *
> **
> * Lots of unanswered questions other than the premium cost we
> are having to pay at the pump. I do not think there are answers to
> many of the questions, but one thing for sure, our Mercedes
> engines were designed to run on Diesel fuel that contained mucho
> sulfur, a type fuel no longer available, except in maybe Mexico. *
> * Anyone want about a million tons of raw sulfur, Texas will
> sell it to you CHEAP, almost free, come get the stuff, makes an
> ugly mountain here in Texas. Plus it stinks like someone eating
> too much bean dip. *
> * Doug Traylor 300d daily driver, 300SD carport parts queen
> w/ wunderbar turbo engine. *
>
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