Winter heating options - Kerosene vs Natural Gas

[benburch]

Does anybody have a link to a price per them comparison for Natural Gas vs Kerosene?

With winter closing in fast, and huge price rises for Natural Gas, I am seriously looking into a Kero-Sun or similar space heater for the room we use all the time so that we can keep the main house heat turned down.

I'd appreciate anybody else's experiences with doing this.

[Deb]

1. I hope this helps

This is a comparison of BTU's per unit of different fuels and the how to figure actual cost using your local price of kero and gas.
http://www.eere.energy.gov/consumerinfo/factsheets/cb5.html

We have used a kerosene heater. I wouldn't keep an unvented kero heater in the house, not even for the emergency we bought it for. We tried that once and gave it away.

There are companies that make direct vented pea coal stoves. All it takes is a hole through an outside wall, no chimney. We have been looking at wood stoves for weeks, it's not an easy decision to choose the right fuel and stove. Good Luck!

[midnight armadillo]

2. What about a pellet stove?

Have you looked into pellet stoves, the ones that burn compressed sawdust pellets? Kerosene is toxic and very flammable, hardly the stuff I'd want to lug around my living room. Pellets are pretty cheap too.

[NNadir]

3. I plan to burn a lot of wood this summer. I feel kinda bad about it,

because wood is such a dirty fuel, but I reason that the wood (which comes from downed trees in my yard) would ultimately end up as CO2 anyway, so I might as well capture the energy and prevent the burning of fossil gas.