Try buying it a litre at a time - up to $5 a litre in places.

I bought a 20 litre drum for $70 a week ago but no, I don't know why it is so expensive.

Could this be the cause of a high price for 'kero'



Prewar in the paint manufacturing the main thinner

was 'pure turpentine' which is not a by product of

petrol manufacture. at the time petrol was about a

one shilling 10c a gallon, Kero was 3d ..3c.

With the manufacture of synthetic enamels the

thinner became 'mineral turpentine' which had been

a discarded product, Because it being the last of the

refining and sales increasing, kero was no longer

in great demand so less produced in favour of

'mineral turps"

Haven't bought Kero for decades--

I was always under the impression that it was a form of kerosine that is burned in jet engines....... maybe the airline industry is gobbling it all up and creating a shortage? I remember only too well our "Fireside" heater as a child..... it burned kero and was always able to keep our home lovely and warm. No doubt our "nanny state" government would declare the too dangerous or a health hazard these days....... strange though, how efficient and popular they were.

Yes we had those also--did keep us warm--for many years

You have to wonder how they price things don't you?, like diesel, kero doesn't get refined as much as petrol however they cost so much more per litre. Like PlanB I haven't bought kero for ages.

Yep they sure were good those Kero heaters, I also had a 3 burner stove , green and black enamel and had a box like oven that sat over 2 of the burners,and cooked things to perfection.

Cuddling IS very nice Nautilus but what does GF stand for?

..

:red: sorry it just came to me :red:

Just ignore me tonight lol too much Cranberry juice.

Yes Nautilus I remember the old Kero/Metho hand pump.

When I was kid living on a farm at Moulamein we used to buy

4 gallon tins of kero and metho we used the kero for our Lamps

and the metho for any cut or mossie bite god it used to hurt.

When The tins were empty my auntie cut the tops off them

and washed clothes in them. They were boiled up on the wood stove.

We also had a kero fridge

It got so cold my aunt could make ice cream in the little

freezer space.

I have fond memories of cuddling GF in front of our very first kero heater and proud of it we were, a major purchase.



I wonder how many people would know what a kero pump looked like? They were tin, hand operated (What, no battery?) and with a common marble to prevent back flow.

Talking of Kero, I remember a neighbor of ours when I was a kid--used to be a drover--and if her had a cold he used to take a teaspoon of kero and sugar --he lived an active full life till he was 95 he always ate raw garlic too

Cuddling IS very nice Nautilus but what does GF stand for?

..

:red: sorry it just came to me :red:

Just ignore me tonight lol too much Cranberry juice.



Girlfriend.



[i[b]]Love in Thy Youth, Fair Maid[/b]



Love in thy youth, fair maid; be wise,

Old Time will make thee colder,

And though each morning new arise

Yet we each day grow older.

Thou as heaven art fair and young,

Thine eyes like twin stars shining:

But ere another day be sprung,

All these will be declining.

Then winter comes with all his fears

And all thy sweets shall borrow;

Too late then wilt thou shower thy tears,

And I too late shall sorrow.[/i]

Walter Porter (1588-1659)

Talking of Kero, I remember a neighbor of ours when I was a kid--used to be a drover--and if her had a cold he used to take a teaspoon of kero and sugar --he lived an active full life till he was 95 he always ate raw garlic too



He got one of them right. He picked the right parents.

Talking of Kero, I remember a neighbor of ours when I was a kid--used to be a drover--and if her had a cold he used to take a teaspoon of kero and sugar --he lived an active full life till he was 95 he always ate raw garlic too



He got one of them right. He picked the right parents.



Meant mean "if he had a cold"