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Article #623363Re: off topic All-electric homes
From: Carlos E.R.
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 10:02
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 10:02
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On 2018-04-30 09:43, maus wrote: > 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. In Spain, "petroleo" is kerosene. Although I heard someone call it "parafina", but he might be an immigrant. And your petrol is called "gasolina". :-) -- Cheers, Carlos.
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