Oh yeah, carrying in all those 10-gallon cans of fuel oil and pouring them through the funnel was a real drag.
I'm surprised that so many people consider fuel oil to be strange. How else do people who don't live in a city with natural gas connections heat their houses? It's very common on the east coast, even in cities. I'm pretty sure that all the houses I lived in growing up were heated with fuel oil.
Actually, we never filled the furnace with a funnel. We have a 1000-gallon tank buried in the back yard. Twice a year a big oil truck would drive up the alley, run a long hose into the tank, and fill it. When fuel oil was $.89/gallon this wasn't all that bad a way to heat the house. However, fuel oil now costs approximately the same as gasoline. We went through about 1500 gallons a year.
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Date: 2014-09-17 11:05 pm (UTC)I'm surprised that so many people consider fuel oil to be strange. How else do people who don't live in a city with natural gas connections heat their houses? It's very common on the east coast, even in cities. I'm pretty sure that all the houses I lived in growing up were heated with fuel oil.
Actually, we never filled the furnace with a funnel. We have a 1000-gallon tank buried in the back yard. Twice a year a big oil truck would drive up the alley, run a long hose into the tank, and fill it. When fuel oil was $.89/gallon this wasn't all that bad a way to heat the house. However, fuel oil now costs approximately the same as gasoline. We went through about 1500 gallons a year.