You most likely don’t need kerosene. They’ll tell you to get kerosene to prevent the oil from gelling up, but I’ve had an outside tank for 5+ winters with no problems using heating oil and an anti-gelling additive like this https://powerservice.com/psp_product/diesel-fuel-supplement-cetane-boost/
Not that heating oil is cheap, but it’s less than kerosene
gumptionary t1_ixluv23 wrote
Reply to Best heating oil company to use? We need kerosene but can't afford $7/ gallon at the company we called. New to this type of heating and kinda struggling to figure this out. Company says minimum of 100 gallon order. Our tank is 275g . 275x7= omg in gonna freeze to death. by [deleted]
You most likely don’t need kerosene. They’ll tell you to get kerosene to prevent the oil from gelling up, but I’ve had an outside tank for 5+ winters with no problems using heating oil and an anti-gelling additive like this https://powerservice.com/psp_product/diesel-fuel-supplement-cetane-boost/
Not that heating oil is cheap, but it’s less than kerosene