sf > wrote in message >. ..


> 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>

No, not at all. It was fairly common to have an oil tank in
the basement (I rented such a house, once), or buried in the
ground near the house (I owned one of those).


Cindy Hamilton