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Machine fuel burn and cost
Diesel gallons per hour, per day and per job for common machines, with cost and CO2.
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Fuel and DEF for every unit on the job, the idle fuel and what cutting it saves, the refuel plan and the spill plan check on site storage, with sources. Numbers in the result and in the plain-words read point here.
- 1Greenhouse gas emissions from a typical passenger vehicleDataUS Environmental Protection AgencyEPA's factor for burning a gallon of diesel: 10,180 grams of CO2 (about 22.4 lb), the factor used for the CO2 figures here.
- 2Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update (weekly on-highway prices)DataUS Energy Information AdministrationThe weekly regional diesel price, a check on your supplier's quote. Off-road dyed diesel is usually below the on-highway price because the road tax isn't in it.
- 3Publication 510, Excise TaxesGuideInternal Revenue ServiceWhen diesel used off the highway is exempt from federal fuel excise tax, how dyed diesel works, and the penalty for running dyed fuel in a road vehicle.
- 440 CFR 112.1, General applicability (Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure rule)CodeElectronic Code of Federal RegulationsA site with more than 1,320 gallons of aboveground oil storage, counting containers of 55 gallons or more, that could spill to navigable waters needs an SPCC plan.
- 5Caterpillar Performance Handbook, Edition 49 (fuel consumption tables)GuideCaterpillar, via MacAllister Machinery (Cat dealer download page)Hourly fuel use by machine model at low, medium and high load, to replace the class averages here with your model's figure.
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