Thread: premium diesel

Originally Posted by prelude

Dang, that sounds like a rip off to me...

Down here we get both premium petrol and diesel but it is actually different stuff, or so they say. It even comes from different tanks. The base fuel is the same though. We have only 2 or 3 brands with large fuel deposits and they all fill up at one of those and add 1000 litres of additives down the block. This determines if it is a normal or premium fuel and which brand you are using.

There is one exception with petrol though, if you buy premium at two brands (shell and bp only) you get 0% bio-ethanol crap so that is a different base fuel I guess but this is not relevant to diesel

Cheers,
-P

Additives are usually measured and injected into the fuel at the terminal, whilst loading. E10, ULP, PULP 95 and PULP 98 are all dispensed from different arms and tanks at most modern terminals. Some old, remote terminals require the driver to add octane booster, manually, to ULP to make PULP 95. PULP 98 is not available in these areas.
Diesel is diesel when being loaded. It doesn't change until it is retailed.

Originally Posted by 101RRS

As does normal diesel.

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Yeah, makes sense it is done automatically these days My info might be a bit dated... So you reckon that the fuel and ethanol is even separate? ie bio-ethanol gets added when filling up the tanker truck? Not sure about that though down here since there are only two brands who have 0% bio-ethanol (premium) fuels down here. I should think that the other brands would like to do the same but simply can't since the base fuel is already pre-mixed...

Ah well, as long as I can buy ethanol free I'm a happy man!

Cheers,
-P