When I was in the army, the manual on the pot bellied diesel fired heater/furnace said to never ever mix gasoline with diesel to thin it in the winter. Our bosses said the same thing. Everything said to use denatured alcohol. That beind said, I and about twenty other guys got stuck up on some ski mountain in Germany in a GP Medium tent for weeks, and had to dig the snow out to erect it. It was cold and windy up there. We didn't have denatured alcohol for the heater, but we had 5 gallon cans filled with gas for the Jeeps. We mixed gasoline with the diesel, which worked ok for a short time while it was mixed, but we had to constantly stir the mixture because the mixture would separate and the heavier diesel would settle to the bottom which was where the pickup was, and would clog it up like jelly. Well, one night we had a supply mixed up and burning, and we all hit the sack in our sleeping bags, fell asleep, and the diesel thickened as it separated and didn't burn so well, but we were all asleep. When it got to the much thinner gasoline, it raced into the heater, overflowed, and WOOSH!!! the fire was on. Burned down the whole tent with all of our gear in it. The Battalion and Brigade commanders were so angry at us for that, that they left us up there for days sleeping in the cabs of our vehicles. I learned from that, that cutting diesel with gasoline is not a good idea.
Someone here that worked in a refinery posted some time back that diesel and kerosene were the same. Being that I have plenty of $$$ tied up in my equipment, I don't know that I would trust anyone's word like that if I didn't know them, but I have added kerosene into the diesel on my tractors a few times to get rid of it and never had a problem.
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