On road diesel vs off road NO 2 red

   / On road diesel vs off road NO 2 red #11  
Back when the transition to ultra-low happened in 2007 the on-road fuel was ultra low but most off-road was not for a period of time as off-road vehicles did not require it yet. By 2010 off-road was mandated to be ultra-low same as on-road with dye added due to no road tax. Most of these off-road myths are from that time period and have not "died"
 
   / On road diesel vs off road NO 2 red #12  
Back when the transition to ultra-low happened in 2007 the on-road fuel was ultra low but most off-road was not for a period of time as off-road vehicles did not require it yet. By 2010 off-road was mandated to be ultra-low same as on-road with dye added due to no road tax. Most of these off-road myths are from that time period and have not "died"
 
   / On road diesel vs off road NO 2 red #13  
Back when the transition to ultra-low happened in 2007 the on-road fuel was ultra low but most off-road was not for a period of time as off-road vehicles did not require it yet. By 2010 off-road was mandated to be ultra-low same as on-road with dye added due to no road tax. Most of these off-road myths are from that time period and have not "died"
 
   / On road diesel vs off road NO 2 red #14  
I've been using the off-road diesel we get from our local oil dealer here in Boone for nearly 20 years and have never had a problem. You must be south of us if you are having a problem finding it.
 
   / On road diesel vs off road NO 2 red #15  
I've been using the off-road diesel we get from our local oil dealer here in Boone for nearly 20 years and have never had a problem. You must be south of us if you are having a problem finding it.
 
   / On road diesel vs off road NO 2 red #16  
I've been using the off-road diesel we get from our local oil dealer here in Boone for nearly 20 years and have never had a problem. You must be south of us if you are having a problem finding it.
 
   / On road diesel vs off road NO 2 red #17  
I've been using the off-road diesel we get from our local oil dealer here in Boone for nearly 20 years and have never had a problem. You must be south of us if you are having a problem finding it.
 
   / On road diesel vs off road NO 2 red #18  
Back when the transition to ultra-low happened in 2007 the on-road fuel was ultra low but most off-road was not for a period of time as off-road vehicles did not require it yet. By 2010 off-road was mandated to be ultra-low same as on-road with dye added due to no road tax. Most of these off-road myths are from that time period and have not "died"
 
   / On road diesel vs off road NO 2 red #19  
If you have a tier 4 common rail engine, it requires ultra low sulfur diesel. The process of making the ultra low sulfur reduces the lubricity of the fuel, so a lubricity additive is used in diesel fuel that is not required in heating oil.
If you get off road diesel, with the red dye, it may or may not be ultra low sulfur and it may or may nor have the lubricity additive.

My locale requires ultra low sulfur heating oil, so I buy heating oil and add the lubricity and cold flow additives myself, that way I know for sure what is in my bulk tank. You could ask your supplier if they get the lubricity added at the loading rack, but I don’t gamble, I know for sure what I have.
 
   / On road diesel vs off road NO 2 red
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People love teasing around with diesel like a cat with a half dead mouse. They absolutly refuse killing it and moving on. Farmers do not plant special soybeans for use in off road diesel. Processing plants don't run special shifts just for off road diesel. There's only one reason off road is red and that reason has nothing to do with how it was made or how it burns. All diesel is exactly the same right up to the moment someone pours red dye it. Why is red dye put in diesel? To make it tax exempt. If you are caught with red diesel in anything other than an off road machine,the fine is huge and in some cases have earned time in jail. From a legal standpoint,you are 100 times better off caught stealing diesel than using off road in your grocery getter. You can hear more than enough lies from the news media,there's no need going on line or to the coffee shop to hear people lie or as some call it "blow smoke up your kazoo".
Cranblue,if I was you I'd find that ".Service tech from Sun Belt told me road diesel was filtered more than off road not just dye." ,pour dye in his fuel tank then call the IRS to report a guy working for Sunbelt is using and peddling off diesel for use on the road. Letting him set in prison to swap lies with other idiots might break him from sucking eggs. Rant over
Yes I had never heard that before more filtration on road diesel.👍
 

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