On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 13:11:57 GMT, "Jack Schidt®"
> wrote:

>
>"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
>
The tanks usually don't blow...on the old systems, the boilers do, or
the burners. I have seen the results of an oil burner fire (again,
not the tank)...greasy smoke all over the place. What a mess.

Many of the oil tanks are in the basements or under the front porch
here in NJ...no laws about the distance from the house. In fact, there
was a case where the home owners had converted to gas & had the tank
removed, but somehow the oil company did not know & when the usual
delivery time rolled around, filled part of the basement through the
usual hose coupling outside.

I only had gas heat in Michigan, so I don't know about oil there.

Boron