YR When I exit full of kerosene, I'm about 55 kilos.

Four little engines, 22 kilos thrust each, turbines working with kerosene.

In places where it snows a lot, kerosene is an indispensable item.

And anyway, there was never enough kerosene, because what does a dollar a day buy for you?

The switch to fossil fuels has also had tremendous environmental benefits. Kerosene saved the whales (which had been hunted almost to extinction to provide supposedly renewable whale oil for lighting).

Many Parties have measures in place that encourage the switching from solid cooking fuels, such as biomass and coal, to cleaner alternative fuels, such as kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), natural gas and biogas.

CO2 emissions result from other, generally beneficial acts, such as burning coal to keep warm, burning kerosene to cook, or burning gas to transport people. The benefits of fossil fuels must be weighed against the costs of global warming.

And the crisis itself almost surely will spread. Firewalls won t work, if kerosene is simultaneously thrown on the fire, as Europe seems committed to doing there is no example of a large economy and Europe is the world s largest recovering as a result of austerity.

This is I don't know if you saw it on CNN recently they gave the Heroes Award to a young Kenyan shepherd boy who couldn't study at night in his village, like all the village children, because the kerosene lamp, it had smoke and it damaged his eyes.