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Seen the price of diesel? It is way out of sync with gas pricing. I have never seen the divergence this bad. This has been a pretty rough winter all around, the one two punch is not over yet. All the plowing and sanding will stretch the local budgets and they still have to contend pot holes come spring. Taxes will be going up. ETA: I was just out to grab some pellets and noticed the price of diesel at the Sunoco at the 95 exit. $4.19
The difference between regular unleaded and diesel is currently about 80-90 cents per gallon. I know it's worse in winter with demand for diesel (aka heating oil) at its highest and stocks getting low, But the last time I saw it anywhere near this bad was (drum roll please) 2008. We know how that turned out.
Not like they use diesel to transport food or anything like that, right? Did you see that they are also requiring low sulfur on the costal shipping fleet? I can hardly wait for the NE liberals to end up freezing in the dark while starving to death. Fitting end I would say.
What's the basic difference between kerosene, heating oil and diesel fuel? Kerosene is $4.59/gal.
The difference beween Diesel Fuel and kerosene--------------------------------------------------------------------------------The differences between Kerosene, jet fuel, #1 Fuel oil, #2 Fuel oil, heavier fuel oils, gasoline, etc. are the types of hydrocarbon chains that are separated and concentrated during refining and additives. For example gasoline has an octane rating which compares the gasoline blend with the performance of pure octane hydrocarbon with eight carbon atoms. Diesel has a septane rating, please note that septane has seven carbon atoms in its chain. Octane rating is how hard it is to ignite and septane rating how easy it is to ignite. What this all means is that the heavier fuels have longer hydrocarbon chains, higher BTU content, are thicker and are more tolerant of contamination (also they are allowed to contain more sulfur). K-1 Kerosene, #1 diesel, and jet fuel (JP4) are closely related to each other. #1 and JP4 have higher allowable sulfur than K-1 (kerosene is also called coal oil by old timers). Since #1 is a shorter hydrocarbon blend it has better solvent properties than #2. (We used to clean out our armored vehicle engine compartments with diesel fuel in the Army, also gasoline used to be sold as petroleum naphtha as a cleaning solvent before it became a motor fuel.) It also has a lower gel point, which means that it takes a colder temperature to turn it to a molasses like thickness. Because these fuels are blends they don't freeze like water, they act more like Jell-O slowly getting thicker until they set. This is why in cold climates it is suggested that #2 be blended with kerosene to keep it from gelling to soon. (Mercedes suggests using up to 30% gasoline in very cold climates). In the US fuel oils are blended according to climate and location and there are also additives that control gel point, contamination (like water), change the flash point, to identify different uses (dyes) etc. There is no real benefit to using kerosene /#1 over #2 unless you need to because of cold temperatures or you just want to clean out your system. If you switch to #1 please change your fuel filter to avoid clogging from any gunk removed. As it has been pointed out #2 has the higher heat (BTU) content. All of this is good to know as in a pinch you can use diesel (or kerosene) in your furnace as a correspondent in Florida recently did during a cold spell when he couldn't get a delivery of fuel oil right away. (Conversely you can use fuel oil in your diesel car but the Feds don't like that as it is not taxed as motor fuel, Several times I have put motor oil in diesel engines when I have run out of fuel.) Personally I would use whatever is cheapest for that area, temperature range and manufacturers recommendation. This means #2 for the most part. I hope this helps more than confuses. Richmond
Carbon molecules or something like that. http://toad.net/~jsmeenen/fuel.htmlI had to Nad...
Yes, hydrocarbon length and branching that is anti-Markovnikov stability laws takes precise reaction conditions to synthesize.
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I hope once I take chemistry this fall, I'll understand this...
Intro-level organic chemistry is where you'd learn that.
I'll be doing 2 semesters of general and 2 semesters of organic, so yeah, at some point I will.
Sitting here in central IL this week, I see $3.70-3.80 is the norm.WTF, over?
Been stuck on $3.49 for a week here. Just waiting for it to hit $4.00 by summer.
