I bought 2 kerosened lanterns last week from Amazon for $18 a piece, and they are fairly good lanterns. The directions say they will burn approximately 10 hours per tank of lamp oil or kerosene. I bought them thinking that if the grid ever fails, it would be cheaper to burn the lanterns than keep the generator powered up through the night. Or I may use them for light just to reduce the load on the generator. Either way it seemed to be a good idea. And if the generator ever fails, at least the lights wont go out.
I keep plenty of flashlights and batteries, but there is just something about a lantern or an oil lamp that says, I will produce light no matter what happens!
The last time our power went down, and was down 3 days, I burned the oil lamp 24 hours per day and only used about 30 ounces of oil, and it brought back old memories of my relatives in Arkansas. When dad and I would go visit them when I was a kid, that is all they had for light at night, and I thought that was cool.
Well anyway, I think having some kerosene lanterns and an oil lamp or 2 just makes good sense for a prepper, don't you?
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