"Steve B" wrote in message
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"JR North" wrote in message
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I've been into kerosene heaters for years. Have several, and use kero
lamps for a lot of illumination. Unfortunatly, kerosene is no longer
cheap like it used to be.
JR

When I was a kid, we had a fuel oil stove. Don't know if that was
kerosene or not. My dad would always have a 5 gallon can of it. When
we'd get it filled, it was a dollar something for 5 gallons. I saw some
kerosene at HD, and it seems to me like it was about $7 a gallon.

Steve

Probably 'stove oil'.
We burned it in an old flat downtown where I grew up.
We had the tanker truck come in occassion to fill the 45 gal drum in the
basement. It became my job to track down two flights of stairs to refill the
5 gallon can that sat upside down on a tray stand to to automatically feed
the kitchen stove...which also heated the flat and our water.
To get a few cents extra cents I would drop into a local barber shop and get
his 3 imperial gallon glass jug, walk across the street to a small family
run convience store and fill it. The barber shop used it for a small heater.