If you're currently freezing and the roads are impassible, look for fuel in your home - that jar of used cooking oil above your stove, kerosene, shortening, animal fat, automotive lubricants. Anything not too toxic or volatile should work fine. Now get some container to hold the fuel and some means to put a lid on it with a hole to hold the wick. I like to just stab old pasta sauce jars through from the bottom to the top. so the jagged edges of the metal catch in my wicks. aluminum foil also works if you don't want to brute force sheet metal with a screwdriver in the icy dark.

Next you need a wick - an all cotton T-shirt might work, but who has those to spare? Most of my clothes are poly blends. Your best bet might be to cut a strip of hand towel, or if you know the materials, use cotton rope, cotton balls will work in a pinch, especially if you unroll a few, twist, and braid them together.

There's also no reason to limit yourself to one wick. If you want a lamp for heat, cooking, and light it makes sense to use a large metal can (since glass jars can burst if heated just on one edge) and rest a lid with multiple wick holes in it. I also Iike to use a metal can as a chimney/standoff if I'm cooking. Avoid cans that contained acidic things for chimneys as their liners are really stinky if they burn.

The best thing would be to prep ahead, or go for some parts from some oil lamp you might have laying around because they're cute and aesthetic. Those will work as-is when saturated with cooking oil or kerosene if you've got it. The cool part is the adjustable wick holder and wide cotton wick pictured here.

How the USA electrical grid is more precarious than you might think

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