Shaftsbury, Vermont (SW VT) | Chad, the monster in the closet is the rule that starting sometime next year, all ships in a certain distance of our coast will have to burn low sulphur fuels. That may be in the form of diesel fuels, marine gas oil, or some other variant, but you can be sure it will put a strain on our refining capacity, and some upward price pressure on our cost of fuels here on land.
Some are suggesting gaseous fuels, as in supplementing the fuel in the engine with gas injection (think Red Rooster on a big scale).
Ever what they do, will create demand for fuels that some part of our economy uses now, and will increase costs. Probably will sugar out eventually, but will be a heartache for a while.
Oliver Durand
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