Nudge Wrote:
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> Railroad Diesel is different and is not involved
> with road taxes. I know under the SP they used to
> shop around years before and lock in a price. They
> had a spec sheet that the fuel had fit. Some time
> they would get a tank car and it was "real" No. 2.
> Sometime it was diesel but the shellac content was
> so high, it would toast an average engine.
>
> There was a Hostler in Bayshore that borrowed his
> brother-in-laws year old Mercedes 300 SDL. Well,
> when we went to beans, he drove the car over to
> the fuel rack and filled the tank with SPs diesel.
> When he got off that night, he made it half way
> back to SJ and the engine seized.
>
> I know when I had my RV/bus, it held 252 gallons
> of diesel fuel. I would top it off before leaving
> Arizona, go thru LA, up the Coast, Sacramento and
> up I-5. Depending on how much fuel I had used, I
> would maybe get 25 gallons before Redding, at the
> most, and it would take me to Medford. Nobody I
> know has purchased diesel fuel in CA for years if
> they could get around it. Truckers hate CA diesel.
> Beside being expensive, it had so much stuff
> removed and other crud added it was a engine &
> filter headache.
>
>
> Nudge


Fuel generally sucks in Kali. And to think we are paying a premium for low grade ethonal washed fuel that gets crappy gas mileage.