On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> Julia Thompson wrote:
> >
> > We have a tank buried in the yard that has a line running to the house. A
> > truck comes out on a regular basis and tops off the tank and leaves a bill
> > on the front door.
> >
> Ah, ok. A curious intermediary solution :-)
Yes. It's not stored *in* the house, but it's our own private little
store. Dan's aunt's tank isn't buried, it's aboveground, and she has a
few bushes in front of it so it looks a little better.
> > They send natural gas through lines, not LPG (which, as someone has
> > pointed out, is also called "propane"),
> >
> Wrongly so. The ASTM defines LPG in such a way that it may contain
> a _huge_ percentage of other stuff, like butane.
>
> I imagine that "commercial propane" might be more interesting for
> New Yorkers, because the two butanes have boiling points of
> -11.7 C [iso-butane] and -0.5 [n-butane], but Texas shouldn't bother
> with those freezing temperatures.
Actually, where we are, it got down to -3C for a day or two almost 2 years
ago. That probably doesn't happen very often in Brownsville, though. :)
Julia
and one of those days was one of the worst of my life
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