• nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 hours ago

    Three, if demand for red fuel goes up, so does the demand for home heating oil (it’s the same thing in my neck of the woods).

    I hope it’s a mild fucking winter or a lot of senior citizens are gonna freeze to death this year.

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      52 minutes ago

      Not entirely; off road diesel is usually the exact same distillate as on road diesel but dyed for tax purposes. AKA the distributors quite literally pull the diesel from the exact same bulk tank but then dye it for delivery. Both onroad and offroad are a ultra low sulfur refined base oil with motor lubricity and cleaning additives. Actual heating oil is a similar distillate but without all the motor fuel additives and (i think) looser sulfur restrictions. It usually comes from a different supply chain than offroad diesel, except in more rural areas where it may be regular dyed diesel for supply chain reasons.