Posted by Fawteen on June 21, 2013 at 16:17:15 from (72.65.111.11):
In Reply to: Re: a true windfall posted by Retired Farmer on June 20, 2013 at 19:47:29:
You and I are on opposite sides of this.
Granted, it takes a lot of time to heat with wood, and if you're farming or working full time, it probably doesn't pay when you figure the time you spend working up firewood at any respectable wage.
Me, I'm retired. Heck, I even pay for the wood. As long as I am able to do the work and enjoy doing it, I'll supplement my oil-fired boiler with wood.
Three reasons:
1. $1000 worth of wood will provide way more BTU's than $1000 worth of oil @ 3.60 per gallon. If I did the math right, about 5 times as much.
2. The $1000 I spend on wood goes in the pocket of a local guy trying to make a living, not some Middle Eastern sheik. (In order to keep this post/thread from being poofed, I won't speculate on what they spend their money on.)
3. There is nothing, and I do mean NOTHING like wood heat when you come into the house froze to the bone from doing winter chores. Or ice fishing "8^).
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