A few months ago, I bought one of the Coleman one burner propane stoves and got to try it out during the ice storm a few weeks back. One of the 1 lb canisters lasted the full 4 days or so we were without power...of course, we just used it to "preheat" and then transferred the pan to the kerosene heater to finish up cooking.

I've also got several of the "white gas" colemans...love 'em when camping. On the "get list" is the widget that will let me convert them to propane.

RE cost of Coleman fuel...usually it has been pretty reasonable. However, I dropped by our local Rural King and they had an endcap full of 1 gal cans...$12.99 each! Yikes. Local Wally World had 'em for $8.49. Don't know if this is just the after effects of trucking stuff in during the storm or what.

--Steve