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On 2018-04-30, Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
>
> Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> writes:
>
>> Good luck finding a place to buy kerosene.  The nearest I've seen
>> lately is perfumed "lamp oil".
>
> Here's an OT yarn:
>
> In 1967, I lived in Montague.  The nearest store was a mile down the
> road in North Leverett.  Chape's store had a single gas pump and all
> sorts of merchandise crammed and wedged into a small space  so tightly
> that CHape had to trun sideways to get out past it.  Would gove
> moderny inspectors fits.
>
> One day at dusk I was there when a 40' tractor/trailer rig pulled up.
> The driver came in, wanted diesel fuel or directions to the nearest
> diesel pump.  About 3 miles back the way you came, then 5 miles to the
> station.  Jeez, what am I gonne do?! I don't have enough fuel for
> more than a mile or two.  Well, Chape says,  I have kerosene.
>
> Oh, great!  Huge relief.  The driver and I go out to the rig and chat
> while we wait for Chape's kersosene.  After a few minutes, Chape comes
> out to the road with a 1 quart spout can full of kerosene, asks where
> to pour it.  Uh-huuuuuuh, he has maybe forty gallons on hand but it
> has to be pumped from the drum with a hand-crank pump, 1 quart at a
> time.  When I ambled off home, Chape was just getting into the 2nd
> gallon and the driver was guessing that he was not merely lost but has
> somehow made it to a different planet.
>
>

Let it be whispered, but I once drove  a Land Rover Defender, and one
way to get it by the smoke-emission part of the annual test was to add
in some (parrifin | kerosene) mixture to the fuel. It was not me that
did that, Judge. A friend once had an home-adjusted Jaguar. which was
started with petrol, then one turned, with a tap, over to kerosene. Not
dangerous in any way.


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