Here you go Henry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel
On 11/2/2011 10:41 AM, ygmir111 wrote:
>
> Ben,
> please explain?
>
> Henry
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <bgiovan@cavtel.net <mailto:bgiovan%40cavtel.net>>
> To: <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:diesel_mercedes%40yahoogroups.com>>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 7:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [diesel_mercedes] Re: diesel why the cost, don't blame
> the tree
> huggers...
>
> > My diesel has no sulfur.
> >
> > Ben near Detroit.
> >
> > On 11/2/2011 10:16 AM, audiolaw@aol.com <mailto:audiolaw%40aol.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 <mailto:doug.traylor%40cebridge.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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