If oil furnaces are so dangerous why have they not been outlawed?

"L.W.(Bill) ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
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> Hi Earle,
> My Grandparents had something made in the eighteen hundreds, Iowa.
> It was oil burning and kind of like our forced air heating in that it
> didn't use water radiators, it had all kinds of safety features that
> finally failed after about fifty years and blew the house off the
> foundation.
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>
> Earle Horton wrote:
>>
>> Heh, did it have a safety system, to shut off the flow of fuel in the
>> event
>> of the fire going out? Because if it didn't, it was a time bomb, that
>> only
>> didn't go off, because of dumb luck.
>>
>> Earle

 

Yeah, I was talking about heating it, but transporting it takes a lot of
energy too, thanks for helping me make my point.

"L.W.(Bill) ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
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> Guess what happens when you fill a tank under eight hundred pounds
> at the heavy ends? Of course it takes energy to pump it in from the
> Tanker. And of course that tanker didn't transport that seventy three
> bucks for a forty gallon barrel for free.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
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>
> Matt Macchiarolo wrote:
>>
>> "This is done by heating the crude oil to a temperature at which much of
>> it
>> will boil." How? Solar power?

 

Yeah, I was talking about heating it, but transporting it takes a lot of
energy too, thanks for helping me make my point.

"L.W.(Bill) ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
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> Guess what happens when you fill a tank under eight hundred pounds
> at the heavy ends? Of course it takes energy to pump it in from the
> Tanker. And of course that tanker didn't transport that seventy three
> bucks for a forty gallon barrel for free.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> Matt Macchiarolo wrote:
>>
>> "This is done by heating the crude oil to a temperature at which much of
>> it
>> will boil." How? Solar power?

 

Yeah, I was talking about heating it, but transporting it takes a lot of
energy too, thanks for helping me make my point.

"L.W.(Bill) ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
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> Guess what happens when you fill a tank under eight hundred pounds
> at the heavy ends? Of course it takes energy to pump it in from the
> Tanker. And of course that tanker didn't transport that seventy three
> bucks for a forty gallon barrel for free.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> Matt Macchiarolo wrote:
>>
>> "This is done by heating the crude oil to a temperature at which much of
>> it
>> will boil." How? Solar power?

 

I think we just can't allow the poor to freeze to death. And I
think have a tanker stops to fill the reservoirs probably makes them
pretty labor intensive. I'll bet you couldn't legally install a new one.
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
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billy ray wrote:
>
> If oil furnaces are so dangerous why have they not been outlawed?

 

I think we just can't allow the poor to freeze to death. And I
think have a tanker stops to fill the reservoirs probably makes them
pretty labor intensive. I'll bet you couldn't legally install a new one.
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/

billy ray wrote:
>
> If oil furnaces are so dangerous why have they not been outlawed?

 

I think we just can't allow the poor to freeze to death. And I
think have a tanker stops to fill the reservoirs probably makes them
pretty labor intensive. I'll bet you couldn't legally install a new one.
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/

billy ray wrote:
>
> If oil furnaces are so dangerous why have they not been outlawed?

 

Haven't you ever rubbed your hands together? felt your compressor
tank?
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Matt Macchiarolo wrote:
>
> Yeah, I was talking about heating it, but transporting it takes a lot of
> energy too, thanks for helping me make my point.

 

Haven't you ever rubbed your hands together? felt your compressor
tank?
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/

Matt Macchiarolo wrote:
>
> Yeah, I was talking about heating it, but transporting it takes a lot of
> energy too, thanks for helping me make my point.

 

Haven't you ever rubbed your hands together? felt your compressor
tank?
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/

Matt Macchiarolo wrote:
>
> Yeah, I was talking about heating it, but transporting it takes a lot of
> energy too, thanks for helping me make my point.