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pretentiousignoramus t1_ixluder wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Best heating oil company to use? We need kerosene but can't afford $7/ gallon at the company we called. New to this type of heating and kinda struggling to figure this out. Company says minimum of 100 gallon order. Our tank is 275g . 275x7= omg in gonna freeze to death. by [deleted]

Isn't that what all heating oil is? Just died red because it isn't taxed like diesel?

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merightno t1_ixlutqc wrote

You probably shouldn't joke, You're going to confuse the new people, and me. Heating is confusing in Vermont!

In case you're not joking, and I am by far no expert but there's heating oil, there's kerosene, and there's propane and those three are distinctly different from each other.

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pretentiousignoramus t1_ixly4gw wrote

I assure you it's genuine ignorance. I thought that heating oil is basically diesel fuel. Diesel is basically kerosene. I think they're all very similar but have slightly different additives. Jet fuel is almost straight kerosene.

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mojitz t1_ixm27ml wrote

Yeah I knew someone who would siphon heating oil out of their tank to run their truck because it was cheaper. Hella illegal, but apparently it worked.

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lindrios t1_ixmaif7 wrote

If the truck was newer than 2007 and he used more than 1 gallon of fuel you can "technically" get jail time for a litany of tax and environmental crimes

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