In reality, diesel in a gas engine will run sluggishly as long as gas is present in fuel. No real damage, no power, hard to or won’t start.Gas in diesel, can cause major damage. burns too hot, pre ignition damage, burned valves etc. Military multi fuel engines were meant to “temporarily” run on gas. Continued use would also cause damage.
@Ashburn Stadium…Gasoline doesn’t compete with heating oil like diesel fuel does. What you see is “market pricing” when demand outstrips supply. People need to keep warm in their homes, more than they need to drive their cars and trucks.
We’ll all end up paying more, since the trucking industry has to recover their increased costs. Can’t win.
Just watch and see how far the price drops after the winter is over (not much).
The economics don’t leave ANY advantage for a diesel over a gasoline engine any more. You can’t ever recoup the extra expense of the purchase — not in fuel savings.
Over here in the UK my diesel’s performance matches petrol (gas) engines. Gas is LPG and hard to find. Diesel is more economical to run, greater mpg, so when the Labour Chancellor realised that people were switching to diesel, he slammed tax on it so that it was more expensive than petrol. No subsequent chancellor has changed this, not even the current Conservative ( in name only) one.
And don’t put petrol in a diesel engine, it can be rescued but it never quite the same again!
I’m just amused that if you take things with a left-leaning slant and view them from another viewpoint, they are right-leaning and slanted the other way. Perspective is a wonderful thing.
Actually they did find his corpse in the ocean but it was too decomposed to identify, so the ship’s crew took the belongings and left the body at sea, his son identified the items belonging to his father.
My employer uses kerosene in heaters in the winter and gas in various things in the summer, without regard for labeling containers or using red for gas, blue for kerosene. I’m just happy to find one with a spout that works. I refueled a gas rototiller and started using it, and wondered why the air smelled like diesel when no trucks were going by on the road. Sure enough, I’d used kerosene. But the tiller seemed to be running fine, and is still used years later.Speaking of hybrids, my 2000 Honda Insight gets 54-64 mpg in hilly terrain. I can drive a month on whatever 10 gallons of gas costs. I’m looking forward to a used electric in about ten years. What are the rednecks going to do for noise when everything is electric?
“Did you know that he disappeared one day? Never to be found alive or dead.”-Well, he DID try to fly a diesel powered airplane over the English Channel as best I recall. Not making the trip isn’t the stuff of mystery.
hawgowar almost 11 years ago
Actually., vice verse. Military truck engines are multi-fuel diesels. Put diesel in your gasoline engine and it means a complete overhaul.
tammyspeakslife Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Next he’ll have to invent boots to prevent those nasty exhaust pipe burns
stillwaterart almost 11 years ago
In reality, diesel in a gas engine will run sluggishly as long as gas is present in fuel. No real damage, no power, hard to or won’t start.Gas in diesel, can cause major damage. burns too hot, pre ignition damage, burned valves etc. Military multi fuel engines were meant to “temporarily” run on gas. Continued use would also cause damage.
WCLamb almost 11 years ago
@Ashburn Stadium…Gasoline doesn’t compete with heating oil like diesel fuel does. What you see is “market pricing” when demand outstrips supply. People need to keep warm in their homes, more than they need to drive their cars and trucks.
We’ll all end up paying more, since the trucking industry has to recover their increased costs. Can’t win.
Just watch and see how far the price drops after the winter is over (not much).
The economics don’t leave ANY advantage for a diesel over a gasoline engine any more. You can’t ever recoup the extra expense of the purchase — not in fuel savings.
g.iangoodson almost 11 years ago
Over here in the UK my diesel’s performance matches petrol (gas) engines. Gas is LPG and hard to find. Diesel is more economical to run, greater mpg, so when the Labour Chancellor realised that people were switching to diesel, he slammed tax on it so that it was more expensive than petrol. No subsequent chancellor has changed this, not even the current Conservative ( in name only) one.
And don’t put petrol in a diesel engine, it can be rescued but it never quite the same again!
The Fly Hunter almost 11 years ago
I like to do that to tailgaters!
jtviper7 almost 11 years ago
He can’t be a hillbilly, he has all his teeth.
route66paul almost 11 years ago
Americans call gasoline – gas. The same as what you call petrol. LPG is much different.
Brass Orchid Premium Member almost 11 years ago
I’m just amused that if you take things with a left-leaning slant and view them from another viewpoint, they are right-leaning and slanted the other way. Perspective is a wonderful thing.
ShadowBeast Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Actually they did find his corpse in the ocean but it was too decomposed to identify, so the ship’s crew took the belongings and left the body at sea, his son identified the items belonging to his father.
grainpaw almost 11 years ago
My employer uses kerosene in heaters in the winter and gas in various things in the summer, without regard for labeling containers or using red for gas, blue for kerosene. I’m just happy to find one with a spout that works. I refueled a gas rototiller and started using it, and wondered why the air smelled like diesel when no trucks were going by on the road. Sure enough, I’d used kerosene. But the tiller seemed to be running fine, and is still used years later.Speaking of hybrids, my 2000 Honda Insight gets 54-64 mpg in hilly terrain. I can drive a month on whatever 10 gallons of gas costs. I’m looking forward to a used electric in about ten years. What are the rednecks going to do for noise when everything is electric?
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace almost 11 years ago
“Did you know that he disappeared one day? Never to be found alive or dead.”-Well, he DID try to fly a diesel powered airplane over the English Channel as best I recall. Not making the trip isn’t the stuff of mystery.