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Article #623362Re: off topic All-electric homes
From: maus
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 07:43
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 07:43
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On 2018-04-30, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 01:49:01 -0300 > Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote: > >> Good luck finding a place to buy kerosene. The nearest I've seen >> lately is perfumed "lamp oil". > > I know a filling station near here with a kerosene pump, it's used > for heating oil round here along with "marked gas oil" aka diesel with dye > (available in the next pump along). Otherwise there are delivery trucks, > but the miniumum delivery is a few hundred litres. > beware different word usages. they mean different in the US than in rightpondia, hell, in country France, 'petrol' will get you a blank stare, try 'benzene' instead. Filling your car with dye marked fuel will get you stopped by the police and your car impounded, or even worse. When I was young(er) what is called kerosene now was called parrafin. -- greymaus.ireland.ie Just_Another_Grumpy_Old_Man
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