What is a reasonable price for Kerosine ? I went to fill a 5 gallon can with today, but chickened out not filling it completely because it was so darn expensive. I paid $6.99 per gallon for it.

What is your price at your location ? That would be the pump price, not buying it in cans from a hardware store. I'm assuming pumping it would be cheaper than buying it in large cans at a hardware store, but these days I don't assume anything about anything.

We have one place in town that sells it by the gallon. Last time I bought some it was a little over $10/gallon. A couple years ago.

I quit using the kerosene heater.

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I just checked with the fuel distributor here. They quoted me $4.50/gallon. I would think that would be the upper end of what bulk kerosene would cost, given the degree of greed and avarice these folks are locally known for.

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$5.99/gallon at the pump here is Southern Maryland. It is getting too expensive, especially when diesel fuel is under $4.oo/gallon.

Wow, I should have bought diesel instead. Does diesel burn slowly more like Kerosine compared to gasoline ? I think it does. That would be cheaper for burn my crap that using more expensive kerosine. I think some folks use Diesel to burn piles, but I wonder if there is black smoke from using diesel to burn stuff. I don't mind black smoke but some of the woke neighbors might not like it.

Kerosine is the lightest of the readily available distillates. Next in line is #1 diesel finally #2 diesel. Kerosene is the cleanest burning of the three.

You can save some money by sourcing dyed fuel or off road diesel. You might find it labeled furnace oil or heater oil too.

About 7 dollars a gallon in No Utah. The wife and I had to buy some for our kero heater when the motor on our furnace went out. Took a week to get the part shipped in. Side note: damn glad the wife and I are preppers. That would have been a major bitch.

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Originally posted by reflex/deflex 64:
Kerosine is the lightest of the readily available distillates. Next in line is #1 diesel finally #2 diesel. Kerosene is the cleanest burning of the three.

You can save some money by sourcing dyed fuel or off road diesel. You might find it labeled furnace oil or heater oil too.

Can you buy the off road diesel from a pump station ? Or is it a contractor-only pump situation for heavy construction companies who run that fuel to run their equipment. I'm guessing off-road diesel may not be available to the common man at a regular type gas station, since it's illegal to run regular diesel vehicles you drive on roads and highways. Is that the case ?

Jet-A is $5.79 at the self-serve pump at Our Little Airport (X04)

Well there is a tiny airport near where I live. Can I just drive in there, get out of my car, and pump 5 gallons of Jet-A into my gas can ? More or less ? Or is that just verboten, illegal, or really bad style ?

Off road diesel is still diesel, just without the road taxes built into the price.

ATF, aircraft turbine fuel, falls within the range of products that can be called kerosene, but has additives specifically for use in aircraft turbine engines. Jet A is one formulation of an ATF, there are others such as Jet A—1, Jet B, JP-4, JP-5, etc. I have no idea what effect those additives might have in your application for kerosene.

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Well there is a tiny airport near where I live. Can I just drive in there, get out of my car, and pump 5 gallons of Jet-A into my gas can ?

There would be no problem doing that at the self-serve pumps at Our Little Airport; don't know about yours. Each place makes its own rules for this sort of thing. It couldn't hurt to try. Or maybe check with somebody, but if there's no one around and the pump is self-serve, I would just go ahead and do it.

You could look at that airport on this website: https://www.airnav.com/airports/

$4.69/gal at the pump in Havelock NC.

Off road fuel.

I guess I’m far enough out in the weeds it’s relatively common. If you see a transport dropping fuel at your gas station ask the driver if he knows where you can get what you need. He’s the one delivering the stuff all over town, or he knows who is.

I don't think any of the gas stations around here carry it anymore. Sheets on RT50 had it back about six years ago until they took their tank out.

The Sheets in Madison was the last place I bought any about three years ago.

It is good to have for emergencies. Walmart carries one gallon for $11.77.

I don't buy it at home, but up north the cabin is heated by kerosine. You have K1 and K2, so prices can vary. K1 is more common to find now as a chain of gas stations/convenience stores sells it. The problem is the supply chain and demand must be so slow/low that it lags behind the gas prices by years. Gas goes up and down all the time. Kero goes up and stays up and I've never truly seen it "come back down." Regular gas will go to $3.85 a gallon and kero will go to $6.00. A year later and gas is $2.75 and kero is still $5.75

In November $4.77 was the cheapest I found. The most I've ever paid is around $6 a gallon. That's up in a sort of depressed area, people don't have lot of money to spend, I have a hard time believing people are buying much of it at $6.00 if they can help it. The people in the store almost seem apologetic when I buy it. (We use about 5 gallons a day mid winter, so a week plus there aint cheap) Down here, lord knows. I overheard someone the other day at work talking about it, they were trying to buy some but were quoting $10-12 a gallon. But I assumed they were talking about hardware store/Home Depot prices.

I found a place in Tamaqua, PA selling for $4.25 per gallon. Burned dirty though. Soot & odors.

I have tried dyed kerosene, which is pretty common. I'd swear the wick seems to get fouled up fast using it.

The other sources I know of are some Speedway and Sheetz gas stations that sell undyed 1k or k1 kerosene for $6.00 & $5.45 per gallon. These burn very clean after heater warms up. Only smell at start up & shut down. Wick stays cleaner too. The undyed is getting very hard to find.

Hardware stores sell it at $10-15 a gallon. You can keep it at that price.

I don't remember ever seeing Kerosene pumps since I was a little kid . All you find now is 1 or 5 gal cans . We used a lot of Torpedo heaters at work but we always burned Diesel in them .

If you’re just using it to light brush piles and such, diesel is what I use. I pour maybe a quart on the pile of brush and a pint on a paper sack (as a wick of sorts), stuff the sack in the pile of sticks, and light the sack.

I use it for emergency heating and supplemental heating for the greenhouse. Of the two nearest dealers with kerosene, one is priced at $6.45 a gallon and the other is usually a dollar or more a gallon less.