fuel furnas

rick165

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neighbor has a fuel furnace .said he can buy off
road fuel and haul it himself cheaper than having it
delivered .is it the same fuel as they would deliver
he doesnt want to cause any furnas issues
RICK
 
It really depends on what state you live in and what the market size of your area is. The difference in the fuel COULD be sulfur levels and cetane levels. Since about 60% of all diesel used in the states goes to on road use most small markets only stock and sell on road fuel no matter what the end use is.
States are even making laws that home heating fuel needs to have sulfur levels equal to road diesel to combat pollution.

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Some are even wondering where we will get this increase in ULSD.

With that said most want to use heating oil for road fuel and that is where the problems come in. Using road or even off road fuel sold at the local station will not hurt a furnace.
 
Even if the price was exactly the same? What's he going to save by going into town? Red plastic jugs? 55 gallon barrels in a pickup? Compare to free or included delivery?
Now, if he has aglae, like what showed up in my fuel tanks, and I get 6-700 a year, at once, diesel from town won't help, a town's school buses in Conn couldn't start this week, fueled up all of them with algae laced pumps. Big expensive mess now.
There was a thread on this a couple weeks ago, someone said sulpher didn't mater, but sulpher was the closest thing to an antibiotic the world ever had till penicillin, so it 'did' control aglae, but saving money? Tell him to do the math again....
I 'was' going to dump 100 gallons of kerosene in my tanks with a bacteriacide, in jugs, from town, when I told the dealer what I was doing, he brought me tax free kero- free delivery...
 
In MN we do not pay sales tax on home heating fuel or off road ag fuel. 35 years ago I bought some home heating oil in Canada as it was much cheaper at the time. Hauled it in 3 55gal barrels in my truck. My how things have changed!
 
I still have a fuel furnace, I have off road diesel delivered for my tractors and I'm sure he puts the same stuff down the hole for the furnace. I heat with mostly wood and in the spring I'm going to pump out my furnace tank and run it through the tractors so I can get some fresh for the furnace, I do use a bioside in my furnace fuel and haven't had any trouble with algae, but what is left this spring will be two years old.
 

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