Re: alfa-digest V9 #240

["Stephen D. Thompson" <thompsonlaw@domain.elided>]

> I met someone recently who runs his diesel cars on jet aviation fuel.  He
> says he can buy it for as little as 5 pence a litre (about 36 US cents a
> gallon if my calculations are correct).  Appartantly when they fill up an
> aircraft with fuel for testing/maintenance purposes, and then drain it out
> again, they aren't allowed to re-use it in an aircraft, so the mechanics all
> use it in their diesel cars.  I don't know what the situation is in the rest
> of the world, but here road fuel is taxed heavily, while aviation fuel isn't
> taxed at all!
> 
> I still haven't had the nerve to put anything weird into the tank of our JTD
> Sportwagon though.  Has anyone tried putting anything other than diesel in a
> diesel Alfa?  Any ill effects?


A good friend of mine ran his diesel Jetta on the heating oil left in his
underground storage tank in his yard after he switched his heat to natural
gas.  No ill effects noted in his beater daily driver Jetta.


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Steve Thompson
Attorney at Law
P.O. Box 1707
Ketchum, Idaho  83340
Phone:  (208)726-4518
71 Berlina
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