Diesel and petrol additives: are you mad?
Diesel and Petrol Additives: Are You Mad?
UNDERSTANDING DIESEL AND PETROL ADDITIVES
Probably not the ideal way to start a blog but really, are you crazy?
Maybe I should ask if you think this is a fair deal instead?
You invest £100 and get a likely return of £300 within a week or two.
Still unsure?
Well, how about we throw in a 3% reduction in carbon emissions on top of the saving?
You still want more?
My final offer: We also reduce your particle emissions by 8%!
In summary, for your £100 investment you receive a near £300 return, a 3% carbon emissions reduction, and an 8% particle emissions reduction.
The offer itself is NOT crazy; it just sounds like it is. But it would be crazy to ignore it.
Let me explain….
If you are running a vehicle and you regularly use the cheapest fuel available to you that just about passes the minimum EU standards for petrol or diesel you are not maximising the full amount of energy the fuel contains. This is not really open to debate this is a fact. The Oil Majors spend vast sums of money working with specialist additive companies to ensure that their retail fuel operates a to higher standard than the minimum. They do not waste money; their shareholders would push back if they were knowingly wasting hard-earned profits.
All retail fuels are not equal. They all meet the minimum standards, whether you buy from a leading oil company or a budget supermarket. The fuels without extra additives will allow your vehicle to work, but over time it will become less efficient as debris builds up in the fuel system. As the debris increases, the vehicle performs less well and the energy from the fuel does not burn efficiently. This increases the emissions and in turn damages the environment more than it should.
Petrol vehicle owners have a simple choice to make. They either buy more expensive fuel treated with additives at a premium branded service station or they go to a budget service station or supermarket, pay less, and buy no additives. For drivers of a diesel car the options are in line with those available to the petrol owner. The difference in buying the two options may be around 1 or 2p or 1 to 2 Eurocents per litre purchased. That’s not dramatic but a 50-litre fuelling can cost up to £1 or €1 more.
SO HOW DO WE GET THE £300 RETURN AND THE EMISSIONS SAVINGS?
Well, this offer is really only open to companies or individuals who have access to the “spot” fuel markets. Such companies usually buy a tanker of diesel and they can pay around 4p per litre less than even the budget service stations sell at. Most European service stations make only 4 to 5p or eurocents per litre sold!
So, if you are one of the companies or individuals who has access to storing diesel fuel you can take advantage of this offer.
Diesel fuel in the UK, and I assume in Europe too, is rising in price; £1.49 and higher currently per litre for branded diesel fuel. £1.48 for supermarket fuel. Spot fuel is roughly 4p cheaper at £1.44. Add on 1p to buy a diesel additive direct from Shrieve, and that equals paying £1.45 for diesel that is treated with additives. This treated diesel should give you a 3% improvement in miles/kilometers driven, and all for a 2-3p or eurocent reduction in cost against a non-treated fuel. The £300 return mentioned previously is simply an expansion of the savings made by spending 1p per litre on a diesel additive. Throw in the emissions reductions that the additive can achieve, and the offer is making sense!
We all accept that in the future, diesel fuel will be replaced, probably by hydrogen for trucks, but whilst the scientists conduct and perfect that technology, we must live with what we have and for the large bus and truck world this has to be diesel. So if we must use diesel surely we should use it as efficiently as possible especially when the extra efficiency actually causes less environmental damage and saves you money.
In summary, a three-for-one financial return and a reduction in the nasties emitted by the truck’s exhaust system.
Interested yet, or are you still mad?
By the way, every time you pay the £100 the offer repeats itself!
See our fuel additive products here: https://shrieve.com/products-applications/fuel-additives/
Written by:
Ian Bennett, Business Development Manager, Shrieve Products International Ltd.