"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Cub Driver wrote:

So I reckon diesel gets
sludgy at an even higher temp than my father-in-law's outside fuel-oil
tank.

Dunno if this is universally the case, but the heating oil sold in the
Atlanta area
is #2 diesel. I expect that's the case pretty much everywhere, since there
was some
talk a few years ago about dying one of them red to try to catch people
who avoid
road taxes by filling up their cars from the heating oil tank.

Met a guy from up north sort of way when I was in Florida who
had a Fouga Magister. When he was at home, he ran it on heating
oil. I think he said he bought tankers full at a time at something like
$0.40 a gallon...this was a few years ago now.

You can run a diesel car on kerosene as long as the fuel pump can
handle lack of lubrication. Some airport vehicles here are run on
avtur (Jet-A) if they don't have to go on the public roads (fuel tax).

Paul