Talk:Heating oil

Needs work

This page needs work to get it up to par with pooku and sulla of u r wife entries for other petroleum products, such as gasoline and diesel. The chemical content section is good, but lots of other information could be provided that would be of use to the reader.

Also, the red diesel thing - red diesel in the UK is just ordinary diesel that has had red dye added - there is a high tax on diesel here, but farmers can use cheap diesel in tractors - this is the fuel that is marked with red dye; woe betide the farmer though caught at the monthly mart with red diesel in his land rover when the excise man comes dipping!

Same in Seattle, the heating oil seems to be the same as diesel or is close enough to work. I actually had a neighbor who would take it out of his house's tank and put it in his truck from time to time. Unfortunately, he got caught during an inspection, it was discovered that his fuel was the "wrong color." he received one heck of a ticket and had to pay something around $10,000 fine and a misdemeanor on his permanent record. 216.231.36.203 09:58, 5 June 2007 (UTC) bdelisle.[reply]

I noticed a "citation needed" next to and elsewhere as "red diesel" is mentioned. Here is a source in Dutch where the Dutch Ministry of Finance officially mentions "rode diesel" which is Dutch for "red diesel". Translation of the last sentence: "The low-taxed diesel/gasoil is dyed red to track and prevent abuse". This is the same stuff as heating oil; in The Netherlands heating oil is called "huisbrandolie", in Belgium (and presumably France) it is called "mazout". Putting this stuff in your diesel-fueled car is considered a financial crime and will be dealt with accordingly; however it will not be mentioned on your permanent record. --Brinkie 11:10, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Human Health Risks

It seems like a lot of site refer to health risks from exposure to residential oil leaks. What are they, exactly?

Other

"Northwest" where? Does it mean northwest UK, USA, China, The World? Sladen 15:37, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Changed to northeastern United States. ("Northwest" did not appear in the text, so I figured you meant "Northeast".) -- Coneslayer 17:48, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cost comparisons are useful and should be retained

Anonymous user 64.126.142.74 claimed it justified to remove the cost comparison with natural gas, saying "$ figures vary too much across the country and make it pointless..." I don't agree, and find it exasperating that the user makes his statement anonymously. He goes on to suggest linking a spreadsheet, but does not do so. I suspect this is a self-serving interest. --algocu 22:12, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Costs comparisons do not belong.

Too many people have used the article as a forum to push one fuel over another by inserting cost comparisons with no real meaning. The article should be about the composition and uses of heating oil.

To insert a section with imaginary dollar figures and call it a cost comparison is meaningless and shows bias towards whichever fuel the editor choses (by manipulating prices). The only way to have a meaningful cost comparison is for the end user to enter the current price of the fuels they want to compare, mulitply that times the efficiency of the apparatus and then mutilply that times the BTU content of the fuel. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Heyjpark (talk • contribs) 16:01, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]