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Default Synthetic fuel from green energy - News

In article ,
Rod Speed wrote:
It's either diesel or it isn't.


There is a difference between making it from crude oil and from CO2.


I refer you to the sentence below.

Or perhaps you consider alcohol or hydrogen that
a petrol engine can run on just synthetic petrol?


Collins GEM English Dictionary
diesel n. ˜diesel oil fuel obtained from petroleum distillation.

A fuel made from other than that may well work in a CI engine, but isn't
diesel oil.

But then accuracy was never of much importance to you.

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