Agree that the cost of diesel saved is miniscule though it can add up over
the years.

I guess that on the typical pleasure boat the biggest saving is in effort
and perhaps mess. Lugging around five gallon cans of used oil from the
engine room through the salon (or ?) to the finger pier to the main pier
yada, yada could get tiresome.

On towboats and larger, however the overall labor, disposal, etc. savings
can be considerable. Those EMDs, KTAs, Cats, FBM, etc. larger diesels hold
considerable oil in the crankcases. 55 gallon drums are the oil containers
of choice on those big boys.

Butch
"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:10:52 GMT, "Butch Davis"
wrote:

Now come the flames, no?

No, not from me. It's an emotional thing.

After spending over two years getting my tanks and fuel halfway clean
to the point where I'm no longer clogging filters every 10 hours or
so, I'm very reluctant to rock the boat, so to speak.

Fortunately used oil is easy/free to recycle around here and I'm
confident that it gets put to some useful purpose. The cost of diesel
fuel saved is really pocket change in the grand scheme of things.