In the controls in rural environments made by the Civil Guard it is quite common that The agents ask us to open the fuel deposit in our car with the aim of extracting a sample from fuel.
The maneuver by the Benemérita is fast and relatively simple, since it only consists in extracting the fuel through a flexible tube or probe and depositing it in a container. This process should not take more than a few minutes, except for vehicles that have the protected deposit to avoid robberies.
In fact, there are cars with transparent fuel ducts in the engine with the main purpose of allowing what color is the fuel.
The reason
As we have already mentioned, this maneuver is quite common and Its objective is to ensure that not allowed fuels is not being used.
Specifically, this fuel is about agricultural diesela fuel that is subsidized by the Government with the purpose of helping farmers and workers in the countryside, who are authorized to use it based on their economic activity.
Currently, the price of the liter of diesel in gas stations is around 1.50 euros, which translates into between 70 and 90 euros per deposit. Meanwhile, The aforementioned bonus agricultural diesel is 1.20 euros per literabout 30 cents cheaper, which translates into 10 or 20 euros per deposit.
The one known as agricultural diesel, red diesel or diesel B has a series of additives in origin that make it easily differentiable from A, conventional diesel that must be used by all vehicles.
The most obvious difference is directly in sight, since The color is different Thanks to the application of a dye by the oil companies that provide a reddish tone. Likewise, it should be taken into account that The density of this dye is high and stain both the deposit like ducts of the vehicles that use it even if only once.
In this way, patrol agents from Rural Areas of the Civil Guard, as well as the Local Police itself, can differentiate in a matter of seconds if a vehicle is using it or not. Besides, To be valid in courtagricultural diesel It is treated with a tracer chemist that allows you to differentiate it in the laboratorysince only the color difference would not be validated as proof.
In case of using this agricultural diesel we would be a fiscal sanction, and not of traffic, the economic fine at the figure of 6,000 euros depending on the defrauded money that is calculated. Also, gas stations that serve this type of fuel to vehicles that are not allowed to use will be committing a crime.
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