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In reply to the discussion: OK. I just paid $3.95 a gallon for #2 heating oil to heat this house for the winter. That is .51 [View all]jmowreader
(50,528 posts)4. Heating oil and diesel are the same thing
What would stop someone attempting to save 40 to 50 cents a gallon from buying an oil tank for their property, putting it in an appropriate location so it at least looks like.you're heating the house with it, and fueling their penis extensions from it? You would never be caught. They aren't worried about big rig drivers doing it; they use too much diesel for subterfuge and they report mileage, but all those diesel pickups could easily do it with no fear of detection. So...what better way to stop it from happening than killing the financial incentive?
Sucks for you and other legitimate users, though.
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OK. I just paid $3.95 a gallon for #2 heating oil to heat this house for the winter. That is .51 [View all]
Purveyor
Dec 2012
OP
Do you honestly believe that there are enough idiots out there that would go
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#6
I can buy 'road' diesel for $4.09 which is cleaner and a bit hotter than #2 but here I go again,
Purveyor
Dec 2012
#7
That is sort of what I expected to pay judging by the spot prices for heating oil. Paid 3.19 on Feb
Purveyor
Dec 2012
#13
Mid-Michigan. Sadly a fucking 'red' county (Jackson). Even more incentive to pack up and leave.
Purveyor
Dec 2012
#12
Just wondering 'cause I'm not sure how that "heating oil" thing works. I've always had gas
Honeycombe8
Dec 2012
#22
An oil furnace has a burner/blower that essentially 'fuel injects' a mist of oil across electrodes
Purveyor
Dec 2012
#23
The December 2012 Heating Oil Price on the NY Merc is currently at $3.041. That is one heck of a
Purveyor
Dec 2012
#20
Because refined petroleum products are being exported at a record pace in order to keep
Ikonoklast
Dec 2012
#21