Re: what a mess

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John Larkin wrote:
http://www.wunderground.com/severe.asp

Ain't nothing like the storms a couple weeks ago when the tool du jour
out here was the chain saw.

This year we bought five cords of wood which I thought would really be
overkill. It's dwindling fast, the stove runs on 100% duty cycle since
early December :-(
Yikes! You do use a lot of wood! It's been a pretty mild winter
here. Only once below zero, I think. Good thing, since I have
electric heat.

Plus one ton of pellets. Used to be two cord plus 1/2 a ton of pellets,
same house. Global warming sure ain't happening here.
Are you heating the entire state? Does the governator know you're
the state's single largest contributor to global warming (forgetting
the CO2)?

10 miles up into the mountains people are now up to almost 10 (!) cords.
It simply gets colder every winter. But: Wood is CO2 neutral. Any other
energy source except ranch methane nuclear is not.

OW! No one I know used that much wood in VT!
Oh, and it's really pouring right now.
We got about an inch of snow today. No big deal, but we went
through a bunch of windshield washing fluid (looking at houses).

Find one with a big honking wood stove. Any other fuel has the potential
to cause a huge slurping sound in your bank account. Some people on
electric heat out here pay as much in a month as a season's worth of
firewood costs us.
Pretty much everything is gas around here. They told me the
apartment was electric because the gas doesn't run this far out.
Last week I got to wondering about the guy's honesty. The houses he
builds right around the corner are all gas.

Electricity ties you to a monopoly. Not a good idea IMHO.

Monopoly, yes, It's a regulated monopoly though. Wood and pellets
are good as long a everyone else doesn't use them. A friend was
going to buy a corn stove this year. I don't know, but I suspect he
changed his mind. ;-) Even wood is expensive, unless you have a
source and are willing to do a *lot* of work. Even a few years ago
('02, I'm going to guess) I paid $180/cord, though I only used 1/4
cord a year, tops.


Regulation doesn't help much IMHO. Classic example, yesterday: Our Missy
Bell wants to raise some services by a wee bit. A wee bit would be
around 200%. I guess they must have their lobby activities very well
lined up. Then we got a notice from the local water works, also
yesterday, that a hefty surcharge (a.k.a. tax) is contemplated. Great!

Depends on who and how many they piss off. I doubt many care much
what land-line service costs these days. ;-)

Remember the tax for the Spanish-American war we paid although the war
was over 100 years ago? The instant it was abolished Missy Bell
quadrupled some fee. Took it right back out of the pockets, and then some.

It's not like there aren't other choices.

Nah, we'll stay independent. Last spring we bought almond at $210/cord.
The local guys wanted up to $300/cord for oak. No way. It's pathetic, we
have a big truck coming up about 60 miles on the freeway to deliver our
wood.

Yikes! I could heat with greenbacks for that.

--
Keith
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