
Jed Talbot
Lead chemist at Howes Products, a diesel fuel treatment maker, who led a study revealing wide variance in U.S. diesel fuel quality.
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Sep 29, 2026
Take control of diesel quality: New study reveals huge fuel performance variance across U.S.
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Jed TalbotGUEST
what every pump gets, what every station gets is going to come from a slew of different refiners around the country.

Jed TalbotGUEST
And every refiner is going to do the processes that are profitable for them, not necessarily best for a consumer.

Jed TalbotGUEST
So you end up seeing a lot of variation in terms of quality of, you know, lubricity, whether or not bio blends are in it.

Jed TalbotGUEST
And certainly in the winter months, you know, how effective the minimum anti-gel that they've put in, if any.

Jed TalbotGUEST
I mean, even the same station, you know, week after week, month after month might have a different delivery.
Diesel Differences-Whats in Your Tank?
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9:21Jim ParkHOST
Can you tell us the difference between the two and why cetane numbers matter for diesel?

Jed TalbotGUEST
Whereas cetane number, that is not an arbitrary, but a calculated measurement against a certain combination of fuel chemicals to give some relative measure of how this fuel does against that fuel or against this standard combination of chemicals.

Jed TalbotGUEST
That's, I mean, the big thing, uh, the CTA number relates to how, uh, how combustible a fuel is, a diesel fuel.
