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Default OT - Heat output of oil lamp

I suspect before the end of the Oh Bomb Us administration. We'll all
be wearing sweatters indoors like Jimmuh Kottah. We'll be driving
clown cars, and wishing we could afford to both heat and eat.

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"A. Baum" wrote in message
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If it's enough, then an oil lamp or two or more. Could be used for
heat
when the power is off, or the propane tank is empty.


I use a couple to light my entertainment room in the evening. They do
noticeably so keep the furnace from coming on as often. There are what
i
would call standard size wick lamps that I use K1 in. Back when K1
wasn't
3 bucks a gallon I heated my house in the evening with a 100K BTU
heater.
It could be 10F outside and the furnace set at 68F would not come on.
These days it's pretty expensive to supplement the main heat source
with
a portable K1 heater. More so than natural gas at $6.47 per MCF. And i
was pretty serious about it too buying K1 from a local petro dealer by
the 55 gallon drum. Can't afford it these days.