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Seriously, think about the starwheel's maximum velocity during the pull-down cycle. It is really moving! It is usually the starwheel that freezes up due to improper oil lubrication or no oil at all.

Leo, in this country, the refinerys dyed road Diesel fuel green in color, and off-road Diesel fuel was dyed red in color. Truckers don't want to get caught with red fuel in their tanks.

During the major fuel crunch, the US Navy added a fragrance to the gasoline so it smelled like roses at one of their facilities. Most military personnel did not want their personal vehicles "smelling like a rose" as they were driving it down the highway. Kind of a macho thing, I would presume...

As far as the military vehicles were concerned, I think they received enough heckling and jeers from the civilian population that they discontinued the practice of making their vehicles smell like roses, too. (That's the navy for ya..)

During the gasoline crunch in the mid 1970's, the navy had an extra person sniffing the cars to see what they smelled like as they were passing through the security gates.

I am not making this up! This was true. I made a formal complaint about the practice because the guys that were sniffing tail pipes were getting so goofy, they didn't know which end was up. Almost immediately after I lodged the complaint, the tail pipe sniffers were no longer used.

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There was problem with that during the fuel crunch in the '70's. The truckers were burning heating oil. When the authorities found that out, they wanted the refineries to dye the fuel so they could tell. They refused then. All of the sudden the heating oil price became higher than Diesel fuel....you figure it out yourself.