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Re: which vegetable oil was cultivated for lamp fuel?



rogerd@lightlink.com wrote:
> 
> In <4s139h$3la@gunmetal.starway.net.au>, hchpl@fhills.starway.net.au (Darcy Howard) writes:
> >alanh@widomaker.com (Alan Horowitz) wrote:
> >
> >>Let me re-phrase the question, to attack it from a different angle.
> >
> >>Sperm whale oil replaced - which illumination fuel?
> >
> >A variety of vegetable oils were used for illumination both before and
> >after whale oils were used for that purpose.  Cheaper vegetable seed
> >oils was one of the factors leading to the decline of commercial
> >whaling.
> >
> >Mark Howard
> >hchpl@fhills.starway.netau
> >
> 
> It looks like I'm jumping in here kind of late. But I searched for this newsgroup to get an answer
> on this subject. I was wondering about cooking oil. I know it burns but at a high temp. Would it burn
> as a replacement for fuel oil or mixed with fuel oil in a home heating furnace?
> Roger Dedrick
> roger@lightlink.com

Oil made from cannabis hemp was the most widely used in the US and 
the world until about 1800, from then until 1870 it was the second most 
popular, exceede only by whale oil.


Shug


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