Can't find it around here...btw $2.81 a gallon I gotta move soon! hahaha

 

no tax to pay lower price at the pump

 

Back in October the new ULSD was first introduced into the market. The only mandate for 1 Jan 2007 was that the service stations post a sticker on their pumps declaring whether the fuel was ULSD 15ppm or the LSD 500ppm. The old LSD is slowly being phased out. Supposedly there's about an 80/20 ratio of ULSD/LSD in the markets right now as that is what the law requires. The oil companies and retailers are being allowed to phase in the new fuel so they can flush the old out of their tanks and pipelines. The next deadline in the mandate is 1 Jan 2010 when the only fuel sold in this country will be ULSD. After that no more LSD, nada, zilch.

 

I'm not sure if they forgot to change the stickers or not, but I just fueled up at a Sam's Club which had the low sulfur diesel stickers (not to be used in 2007+ vehicles, etc.) The best price I had seen in months was 2.49 and they had diesel at 2.30! I pulled right in, too bad I'm excited about 2.30.

 

The cheapest fuel is not necessarily the best. Sam's and Wal Mart dont sell three or four truckloads of diesel fuel a day from one location like a large truckstop does. They are not flushing thorugh high volumnes of fuel and are more likely to have contaminated stale fuel. I will pay 5 cents more as long as I know its a quality fuel and theyre going through a lot of it every day.

 

Good point dieseljunky, but I'm nowhere near a truckstop which is where I would rather go to. Have to get way out of town for that. All we have here are the dinky little gas stations, they probably sell around the same amount. PS and MMO keep em runnin good.

 

thought they were going to keep 500ppm around for marien and agri uses only

 

500 PPM here in South Central PA!

 

I was wrong on the date the transisition period ends Dec 1st 2010 and there will be no LSD available after then. That's what everyone will run marine/agriculture, everyone.

 

oic hmmmmmmm.
how is that going to be in the older tractors, will it cause fuel line leaks

 

I don't know about other parts of the US but here in N. Iowa Murphy/Wally Mart and a few others still have LSD stickers on the pumps and Citgo and Pilot have ULSD stickers on their pumps, yet all of the diesel around here comes for the same tank farm and all it has is ULSD. So even if the pump has a LSD sticker does not always mean you are getting LSD. It could be that they have not pumped enough fuel through there tanks to clean out the sulfer or they have not taken the time to change stickers on the pump. As for color I have seen ULSD be either green, amber, clear and blue/green.

 

The Quarles fuel stations where I fill up have both. The 500ppm LSD is marked for "Off Road Use Only" and the 50ppm ULSD is marked as "On Road Use". The 500ppm is about 75 cents a gallon less.
Both pumps are side by side and there is no one there to say you can't put 500ppm in your vehicle. Most of the Quarles fuel stations are un-manned facilities.
I've been tempted to use the 500ppm but as they say, "if you can't do the time, don't do the crime".

 

My local corner station just changed over to the ULSD. Most places around here changed over a while ago I think.

I'm paying $2.85 and our fuel here in Utah is refined locally! I think I would rather pay $2.20 and have it come from the Middle East.

 

As for the color, the LSD I got was yellowish and then they switched the stickers and the color was almost clear. Then later the color was back to yellowish and the stickers are gone.

I would hate to have a 6.7 and be searching around for true ULSD fuel!!

 

i can find both LSD and ULSD in Houston. Cheapest ULSD here is $2.11 gal.