Oil price rant

[Burnerman]

45p per litre in the summer for kerosene....bad enough I guess but its now 74p per litre - if you can get it!
Deliveries are 3 weeks behind and old folks around here are getting cold.
Of course, there aren't any deliveries at weekends either - that would be too simple.
However, if you are prepared to travel to some of the oil distributors, they will sell you oil at £1.00 per litre, vat extra, so long as you bring your own cans......ah bless!
It was claimed, on Breakfast TV last Thursday, that there was no profiteering. Yeah, right
John

 

[Norcon]

You just promted me to check my tank and have enough until summer.
Didn't realise it was up to that price.
My tank holds 2700/L.

 

[Burnerman]

If I can trust my Apollo - which is unlikely - I've around 700 ltr or so.
Got a huge bunded plastic tank that holds about 1300 ltr.
Enough oil until summer - that must be very reassuring
Imagine buying kero in 25 ltr jerry cans....hardly wet the bottom of the tank
John

 

[joe-90]

When the price goes up the thieves come out. There's a lot of money in a tank of oil.

 

[Donkmeister]

Does heating oil go off like petrol does?

Just thinking, I find 1-year-old petrol upsets my strimmer, wondered if kerosene is the same...

 

[gblades]

Petrol shouldnt go off unless it is premixed with oil which might be the case with your strimmer.

 

[MANDATE]

Update on kerosene price. How does 58.5p + 5%vat a litre sound.
Ordered 24/12/10 delivered 4/01/11

 

[Burnerman]

Petrol shouldnt go off unless it is premixed with oil which might be the case with your strimmer.

You can expect unleaded fuel to be below par after a year, but you can buy additives which keep it wholesome...Briggs and Stratton do one.
John

 

[Burnerman]

Update on kerosene price. How does 58.5p + 5%vat a litre sound.
Ordered 24/12/10 delivered 4/01/11

After current prices it almost seems a bargain
Delivery seems to be sorting itself out, too.
I'm ok until Feb I think - but the tank aint gonna get low.....!
John

 

[Johndug]

Does heating oil go off like petrol does?

It can probably develop the same fungus that appears in a stale diesel tank. Looks like a brown furry sludge.
Google "Cladisporium Resinae" and it'll tell you that it appears in the fuel when a small quantity of water is present.