On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:21:13 -0400, "Roger Long"
wrote:

The yard told me to use an octane booster with the heating oil but I've had
others tell me boosters are a bad idea for small diesels.

The higher the octane the worse the fuel. Diesel fuel has its own
rating: Cetane. Basically the higher the octane the lower the cetane.

Casady