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- From: igb@fulcrum.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
- Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
- Subject: White Gas Names [Was Re: Info on Whisper Lite Stoves]
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- Date: 23 Jan 93 12:20:20 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.040707.8831@Princeton.EDU> <C17unM.Mn6@inews.Intel.COM> <1jn4i8INNcns@crcnis1.unl.edu>
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- In article <1jn4i8INNcns@crcnis1.unl.edu> price@helios.unl.edu (Chad Price) writes:
- > >Why kerosene? It's far more available in the third world than white
- > >gasoline (naptha),
- >
- > I'm afraid I wouldn't qualify Britain and Continental Europe or New Zealand and
- > Australia as "third world". Probably more accurate would be to say that the
- > ready avaliablity of "white gas" is unique to North America, and elsewhere it
- > may be either hard to get or unavailable.
-
-
- White Gas:
-
- OK, here's my experience. I run an MSR stove and a Coleman stove,
- mostly because they're niver objects than the usual Gaz equipment.
- They're usually not run on kerosene, because it's a pain to prime. So
- I've foraged for fuel a bit in Europe. Camping shops in the UK sell
- Coleman Fuel, although it's expensive. In Germany I was reduced to
- burning a bottle of fuel for petrol cigarette lighters, but my German
- wasn't up to asking seriously. In France ``Essence C'' is sold in every
- supermarket, dirt cheap, as a solvent for cleaning grease off clothes.
- It's a bit dirty sometimes, but it's VERY cheap.
-
- Kerosene:
-
- That's paraffin in English.
-
- ian
-