Low sulfur fuels are in general better than high sulfur ones. As I understand it, some crude oils are low sulfur. some high. I think the process for removing sulfur during refining is expensive, but not so much so as to be economically impractical. The exhaust from engines burning high sulfur fuel smells bad, and the sulfur dioxide is a harmful air pollutant. In high concentrations there is no doubt that it harms people's health. I would guess that is injurious to high temperature engines, like jets and turbojets, and I would expect that jet fuels are required to have less than some specified amount of sulfur. Gerry http://www.pbase.com/gfoley9999/ http://www.wilowud.net/ http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/pollock/263/egypt/egypt.html http://foley.foleypages.net/~gerry/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alireza Alivandivafa" <democrat2n@xxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 2:24 PM Subject: Re: Low Sulpher Fuel > They have had low sulpher diesel in Europe for years. It doesn't, or > shouldn't, cost anymore and its strength is that is has lower sulpher > concentrations than older diesel forms and hence lowers particulate > emission. It doesn't have any particularly weaknesses other than oil > companies steadfastly refusing to move their bloated, lazy, exploitive > bums and move the formula into the US market. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: yyz_02140@xxxxxxxxx > To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 2:00 PM > Subject: Low Sulpher Fuel > > > FRIENDS: > > Has anyone had any experience with low sulphur fuel? > Anyone know of its strengths? Weaknesses? Costs? > > Thanks, > > Mike Burris > Cambridge, Mass > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > ________________________________________________________________________ > Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and > security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from > across the web, free AOL Mail and more.