{"id":306848,"date":"2026-10-15T00:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T00:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306848\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T00:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T00:30:19","slug":"pennsylvania-farm-bureau-calls-for-red-dyed-diesel-use-on-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306848\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Farm Bureau calls for red-dyed diesel use on roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/4f5c2ac9-974d-460c-8618-1fcbb388c0f8\" aria-label=\"Brian Roche profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792024219_477_4f5c2ac9-974d-460c-8618-1fcbb388c0f8_1654040425.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Brian Roche\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">The Pennsylvania Farm Bureau is calling on Governor Josh Shapiro and state lawmakers to allow red-dyed diesel to be used on roads in Pennsylvania.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Red-dyed diesel is typically reserved for off-road vehicles, such as farm equipment, and is not currently legal for use on Pennsylvania roads. This restriction remains in place despite former President Donald Trump signing an executive order providing temporary tax relief for highway use.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Will Whisler, with the Farm Bureau, highlighted the potential benefits of this change for farmers.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">&#8220;Allowing dyed diesel fuel to be used on the road will bring necessary relief for farmers because every cent per gallon matters when you have a fleet of grain trucks or need to haul cattle hundreds of miles,&#8221; Whisler said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania Farm Bureau is calling on Governor Josh Shapiro and state lawmakers to allow red-dyed diesel to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2470,20701,61890,34,125829,33400,10045,39989,35827,125838,67440,451,125839,125832,125833,125830,74457,28,42942,30,20037,29,84741,5608,124564,125834,5071,3606,6014,22724,125835,125837,2812,125836,125831],"class_list":["post-306848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-agriculture","tag-cent","tag-diesel-fuel","tag-donald-trump","tag-dyed-diesel-fuel","tag-executive-order","tag-farm-equipment","tag-farmer","tag-farmers","tag-former-president-donald-trump","tag-fuel-relief","tag-governor-josh-shapiro","tag-grain-truck","tag-grain-trucks","tag-haul-cattle","tag-highway-use","tag-off-road-vehicles","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-farm-bureau","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-lawmakers","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-roads","tag-place","tag-red-dye-diesel","tag-red-dyed-diesel-use","tag-relief","tag-restriction","tag-road","tag-tax-relief","tag-temporary-highway-use","tag-temporary-tax-relief","tag-wgal","tag-whisler","tag-will-whisler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}