Anthony Matonak wrote:
Jonathan Grobe wrote:

Anyone care to discuss the advantages of various lighting methods
(a bright light enough to read a book by which would last for
many, many hours) using kerosene, white gas, batteries...

There is a reason why people use electric lights.

Yes, convenience.

Burning things is both dangerous and smelly.

Perfectly possible to do it safely and non smelly
with what is used for gas powered camping lights.

And you can just plug a decent led torch into the car etc too.