Opinion
Carriers don’t run on diesel
Stars and Stripes
April 9, 2010
There’s a glaring error in the April 6 column "Don’t ignore the green case for offshore oil" by Eric Smith. It said "shipping oil to the U.S. requires burning a huge amount of diesel oil." The crude carriers that transport the oil from where it is produced to where it is consumed don’t use diesel oil for fuel. Residual and distillate fuel blends such as black oil fuel and No. 6 fuel oil, a bunker fuel, are burned instead of diesel. If the ships burned diesel, our gasoline costs would be even higher.
L.D. CarleyUSNS Walter S. Diehl