Posted on 10/21/2008 5:20:02 AM PDT by thackney
Teppco Partners said Monday its refined products terminal at Princeton, Indiana, had run dry of low-sulfur diesel.
Liftings of the product were expected to resume Wednesday afternoon, the company said in a bulletin to shippers.
Several parts of the US Midwest and southeast have suffered recent refined product shortages. Trading sources pegged the shortages to lagging supplies coming from US Gulf Coast refineries idled due to Hurricane Ike last month and to the international credit crunch, which has prevented large stock-building purchases by buyers in the Midwest and southeast.
Teppco has said that intermittent outages were expected at some of its terminals until adequate supply was maintained in its system.
Teppco's refined products pipeline system runs 4,600 miles from Texas through the Midwest to parts of Pennsylvania and New York and has a capacity of 340,000 b/d.
News last week
Teppco says Indiana terminal to run out of LS diesel Wednesday
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2106159/posts
October 15, 2008
I haven’t seen any shortages at our pumps here. I wonder if we do the State will allow us to use untaxed off-road until the supply goes up?
Nope, I didn’t think so either.
Drop your shorts if you get busted with dyed diesel!
I went to an auction that they have here in Indiana about 4 times a year, all agriculture and industrial equipment.
All during the auction the announcer had to stop and call out license plate numbers so people could go out to the parking lot and meet the State Trooper with his stick and white rag dyed purple.
Indiana made a butt-load of money that Friday.
I hate that kind of s#it.
A little bit of the dye lasts a long time in the tank.
I’m waiting for the Dems assault on refineries inability to keep up with demand and the call for government takeover to insure the oil companies can’t cheat the American people anymore. Shortages like this (manufactured by excessive govt regulation) will be the catalyst.
We had 4 MMBPD of refinery capacity knocked down with the hurricane. Several are still at reduced capacity with multiple units within the Gulf Coast Refineries still not operating.
Don’t they add like 5 times the necessary concentration? They’ll find it lonnnnnnng after the last load of off-road diesel has been added.
The company I work for uses all un-dyed diesel, and gets a rebate for diesel used for off-road purposes.
I bet a special filter that would remove the dye would sell like hotcakes...
The article is talking about low sulfur diesel. I was under the impression that only ULSD was being produced now. I guess that was not correct.
Ultra low sulfur diesel is a requirement for 2007 and newer trucks with DPF’s. Although 1 tankful won’t mess one up, it will shorten the life of the DPF.
Rush had a caller a few months ago who said wellheads were closed after Katrina and couldn’t be re opened because of newly imposed environmental restrictions. That’s the kind of interference I’m talking about. Not obvious to the casual observer but subject to Dem propaganda that says the evil oil companies are deliberately restricting production and the govt is the solution. If Obama is elected and gets the congress it appears he’s going to get there will be no end to the damage they will cause the oil industry in particular and the economy in general.
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