I drove to the home store (trip #831 of the home renovation that will last longer than I do). I needed to buy gasoline so surveyed prices along the way. I noticed that all the diesel fuel price signs were in green: green LEDs for the electronic signs, green cardboard for the paper signs. Gasoline…

here’s my observations . . . black fuel filler cap = gasoline yellow fuel filler cap = E85 green fuel filler cap = diesel With that being said, it makes sense that the fuel signs correspond to the actual filler cap(s)

My wife and I were in Ireland a year ago, and stopped at a station to fill the tank. I picked up the nozzle, then looked at the pump, and the nozzle with a green handle was gasoline and the black handle one was diesel. I filled it with gas, as required, then went in to pay and said something to th…

Does a diesel nozzle actually fit into a gasoline tank filler hole? When they started making unleaded fuel only vehicles, the unleaded gas nozzle was extra small to fit in the gas tank filler hole that wouldn’t accept the nozzle of a leaded regular gas pump. However, that won’t prevent you from fi…

[image] lion9car: In my area, green is most common, but I also see yellow being used. Same in my area. They also often mark E-85 with yellow. I’m surprised I don’t hear more stories of people putting the wrong fuel in because of that.

The minoco stations sell a variety of mixes. And have pumps with 3 gas nozzles. I am not sure if they even sell diesel? They have e10 and e85 and then they have e-15. The e-15 is 3-4 cents cheaper and they like to put that price on the sign. Next to the e-10 price. Guess they want rubes to stop for…

[image] B.L.E: Does a diesel nozzle actually fit into a gasoline tank filler hole? In the ten years that my wife had a diesel car, we might have run into one or two stations where the diesel pump used the smaller nozzle.

Yup, just looked. The diesel LED was green and the gas was red. Never noticed begore.

Something I noticed, the button you have to push for diesel says DIESEL. Could that be a clue?

I understand that. We had junior enlisted assigned to drive a truck between bases in California, they might get this detail once. Not all were aware of the difference. One filled our big diesel box truck with gasoline. Another, not wanting to make that mistake filled our 1/2 ton pickup with dies…

Green is the color of diesel fuel signs

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B.L.E October 4, 2020, 12:38pm 16

It can be a real problem with fleet drivers or with people who borrow a vehicle who don’t realize that the vehicle they are driving is a diesel powered vehicle.
We had at least one driver tank up one of our company trucks with gasoline.

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Green is the color of diesel fuel signs

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