[Vwdiesel] B20 furnace oil...

[Shawn Wright]

Hmm... you could say that's from the ATF used as an additive, right? ;-)

I would consider heating oil as an option except my current fuel usage is so low I'd have a 
hard time justifying it. It would probably take over a year to use a 250g tank.

On 27 Oct 2006 at 16:45, mikitka <mikitka at earthlink.net> wrote:

> The downside to running the offroad/heating oil fuel is the red dye. It
> would be my luck that the D.O.T. would be feeling lucky one day and notice
> I'm in a diesel, pull me over and check my fuel. I'm in a large farming area of
> North Carolina so I would think it would be looked at more here then in a major
> city environment. The fine from my understanding is steep, $2500 I think. Nick
> 
> 
> Well .... offroad diesel , which is the same as home fuel oil is less 
> than $2 a gallon here, not saying I've run that in the golf, but it 
> does seem to like that stuff :-}
> On Oct 26, 2006, at 10:15 AM, 82 Diesel Westy wrote:
> 
> > One of my college frat brothers, well his dad had a
> > 200 mile ride to work, he would come home once or
> > twice during the week.  He had an early 80's chevy
> > diesel pickup truck that he ran home heating oil in
> > for years, red die and all.  That was back when it was
> > .89 cents and diesel was 1.40 a gallon.
> >
> > Go for it.
> >
> > Bryan
> >
> > --- Shawn Wright <vwdiesels at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Up here in the sticks, we still can't get bio-d at
> >> the pump, short of a single
> >> cardlock 50km away. But they're advertising B20
> >> furnace oil, which I can get
> >> delivered to my door... sounds like I need to get a
> >> 250gallon tank for my two
> >> 1.6L "furnaces"... :-)
> >>
> >>
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Shawn Wright
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'88 Westy 1.6TD 5 speed
'85 Jetta Diesel 1.6NA