"sf" > wrote in message
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>
> I'm from Michigan originally, but when I lived there our
> heat was oil not gas. We had huge tanks which the
> supplier's truck pumped oil into and they had to be a
> certain number of yards from the house in case they blew up.
> Oil, gas.... <shiver>

It takes quite a bit of energy, aka spark to ignite No. 2 heating oil. You
can toss a match on a bucket of it and it won't ignite.

Jack Mobil