Red Diesel much higher sulphur content than DERV

truebrit

New member
Joined
27 Sep 2003
Messages
253
Location
Warwickshire
Visit site
Just received a news sheet from my fuel supplier, apparently Farmers are being targetted by Customs because modern tractors are better engineered and capable of consistent high road speeds and are now covering greater mileages than they used to on highways,they are also worried about various categories of construction equipment doing the same thing. Poor old B Liar and Brown worried about missing a few bob to waste on some hare brained scheme I suppose. I digress, also in news sheet was maximum legal suphur content specs for fuels at UK refineries:----

Gas oil 2000 parts per million

ULSD(Derv) 50 ppm

Aviation kerosene (non domestic) 3000 ppm

At present then flying is most evironmentally unfriendly means transport of all !!

The figure for aviation kerosene is being reduced later this year to 2000 ppm

All the fuss with farmers and construction industry is about road use, so I propose boats should carry on with rebated red diesel and also to be fair petrol used in boats should also be rebated !! Im sure if we got Cherie Booth QC to argue our case in the human rights cause we could win, B Liar could hook lots more money into the family pot from wifes fees and we'd all be happy wouldnt we /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 

LeytonC

New member
Joined
16 Sep 2002
Messages
1,738
Visit site
A while back i spoke to perkins about effects of low sulphur diesel, I posted this in the red diesel campaign a while back, but i thought i might remind people of it here... (Sorry if you read it before)

'The lower sulphur content could be an issue with the seals in your injection pump.
The seal swell with low sulpur fuel is less which may cause leakage in your pump. It may be advisable to have the injection pump reworked and all the seals changed if red diesel is no longer available. '
 
Top