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I believe with diesel it is cetane. the higher the cetane the easier to ignite and the better it will run. But the higher the cetane the energy denseness is less.
I remember as a kid in the 60s the smell of the city transit busses running the high sulfur fuels. It smelled distinctly good at the time. Maybe that's why I got hooked on tobacco for the past 40+ years.