On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:46:45 -0500, "Steve W."
wrote:

Richard J Kinch wrote:
White gas is "straight run" gasoline - no additives - not readily
available today.

Hidden as camp fuel at Walmart.

Speaking of which, it tends to sell in the gallon cans there at about twice
the unleaded filling station gallon price. So this should be around $3
something again. The local Walmart has had neither Coleman brand or the
store brand for weeks, and the shelf tag still has it at almost 9
dollars/gallon from last summer (when gasoline was 4.50/gallon). There is
one badly dented up can that has been sitting there for months unsold.

Sure looks like the oil price has put the supply of this item into turmoil.

I am lucky when I can even get ONE gallon of Coleman fuel at the three
Wal~marts around here. The local Amish population seem to arrive as they
stock it, sort of like sharks to a chum bucket!

Same thing with plain "lamp oil"

Lamp oil is nothing more than kerosene. You can buy a 5 gallon can of
it at your local bulk plant, or from your favorite machine shop supply
company. Check pricing FIRST....it tends to vary a lot.

Kerosene is used in a lot of screw machine shops for some machineing
operations and for parts cleaning.

You can, in pinch...use #2 fuel oil in a kerosen lantern and
diesel..but its more stinky and smokey.

Jet A works pretty well...very well actually...particularly in the
Petromax lanterns that are intended for kerosene. Just make sure its
not the Winter Mix with gasoline in it. Shrug


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