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DonBoy30 t1_j50w1xs wrote

“So I saw this grey box with a fan in it. So I just started filling it with oil. Stay warm!”

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Jumpy-Natural4868 OP t1_j50wnwa wrote

"Here's a bill for $2500"

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Inner-Figure5047 t1_j512uk5 wrote

That happened to my household. We were sued. For the cost of the fuel. They won the court case as it was a work day and there was no way to appear in court. That was a few years ago, still livid.

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gslavik t1_j51l0av wrote

You were not served law suit papers and couldn't file a response?

Sounds like a default judgement, which could be set aside if you weren't properly served.

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Inner-Figure5047 t1_j51lyki wrote

Partner was served, court date was two days after he was served. He had just started a new job and couldn't miss any time during his shift for this. He contacted the courthouse to explain his work situation and they were like cool, sucks to be you.

He had even sent payment for the fuel that was erroneously delivered the day it arrived. The check came back return to sender in the post. Never gave it another thought until he got served.

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MagikSkyDaddy t1_j52b7qm wrote

Home heating oil is just diesel, is it not? So they just poured diesel into the water?

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Anonymous_Otters t1_j52eisa wrote

Not exactly. While diesel fuel can contain the same length carbon chains as it found in heating oil, diesel has a range that includes much lower carbon chains than the shortest chains in heating oil. So, generally speaking, heating oil will tend to have more long chain carbon molecules than diesel fuel.

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Disturbingavenger t1_j52owp4 wrote

Ummm No it’s the same… other than additives and dye

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Anonymous_Otters t1_j52pzcm wrote

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_fuel

It is produced from the fractional distillation of crude oil between 200 and 350 °C (392 and 662 °F) at atmospheric pressure, resulting in a mixture of carbon chains that typically contain between 9 and 25 carbon atoms per molecule.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heating_oil

Heating oil consists of a mixture of petroleum-derived hydrocarbons in the 14- to 20-carbon atom range that condense between 250 and 350 °C (482 and 662 °F) during oil refining.

Umm feel stupid yet?

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Puzzleheaded_Elk_665 t1_j5bot0u wrote

Wikipedia is wrong. It's the same cut off the crude unit. May have different sulfur specs depending on state regulations. Heating oil is not subject to RINs where ULSD is. I have worked as engineer in oil refining.

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kelvin_bot t1_j52q0e9 wrote

350°C is equivalent to 662°F, which is 623K.

^(I'm a bot that converts temperature between two units humans can understand, then convert it to Kelvin for bots and physicists to understand)

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[deleted] t1_j52qwsv wrote

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Anonymous_Otters t1_j52r4ph wrote

Almost like that's exactly what I said, that diesel ranges include molecules that are also in fuel oil but that fuel oil has a higher minimum, meaning fuel oil, on average, would be expected to have longer carbon molecules. Fucking reading comprehension. Get some.

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the_real_xuth t1_j52xqem wrote

They are close enough and overlap in their specifications to the point that they can be used interchangeably and I've seen sources of it in smaller markets say that they start with the same refined product (presumably since it would take more effort than it's worth for a refinery on the west coast, where there is a heating oil market but it's tiny relative to the northeast, to sell a separate product).

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Disturbingavenger t1_j537uhm wrote

No I don’t Close enough for anyone who gives a shit

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Anonymous_Otters t1_j538dxv wrote

Willfully ignorant, the most despicable kind of person. Waste of carbon, be better off as fuel oil.

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