[C320-list] Road Diesel vs Marine Diesel

Chris Burti clburti at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 10:40:29 PDT 2011


Your question assumes that the marina actually uses additives...which
I believe is generally not the case around my area and where both are
coming off the same truck.

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Jason Alexander
<alexander.jason at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I think I know the answer to this but wanted to get people's opinion.
>  Is there really any difference between road diesel and marine diesel.
>  I suspect the only difference is in the additives.   According to
> Wikiapedia all diesel will be required to be ULSD by 2012 so in that
> respect it should be the same.   I often can get road diesel cheaper
> than I can get it at a fuel dock at one of the marines locally.   My
> marina doesn't have fuel.  So either way I have to bring it in with me
> or take the boat somewhere.
> Either way I always put in a shot of bio-cide and stabil to keep the
> fuel as fresh as I can.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>



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Chris Burti
Farmville, NC



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