-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anthony Giorgio Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Offload work to zIIP with zPRIME
Hal Merritt wrote: > Old days? Still very much so today here in the US. It is called 'off road' diesel, and, except for the color and tax, it's exactly the same fuel. Or so I'm told. > > Don't know the price difference but I'd suspect it's substantial. As the penalties for using it for inappropriately. > > I've heard stories of inspectors going to county fairs and checking the color of the diesel in the fuel tanks of pickup trucks. If you're caught using the off-road diesel, the penalties are rather severe. <SNIPPAGE> Wanna have some fun? Pour a quart of Dextron II (ATF) in your 50 Gal Diesel tank. In Ohio that's the same color as off-road diesel. The reason I was given for doing such a thing is that ATF will actually clean your injectors. Beats me if that is true, but it seems to burn OK (I didn't do it, I saw someone doing it). Oh, and in the places that I've seen that sell off-road diesel, it costs more than the highway diesel. Still scratching my head on that one (at the time I was operating both types of equipment). Later, Steve Thompson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
