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Posted on 07/26/2008 5:50:50 PM PDT by Kevin J waldroup
WEST SPRINGFIELD - Pellet stoves didn't use to be hot sellers in July when the temperatures were pushing 90 degrees and homeowners thoughts ran more to pools and air conditioners.
"You never sold a stove this time of year," said Russell I. Pomeroy, owner of Pomeroy Lumber Co. in North Hatfield. "But, now, you can't afford not to have one."
With the price of home heating oil up to $4.71 per gallon compared with $2.54 a gallon a year ago and the price of propane is at $3.12 a gallon compared with $2.31 a gallon a year ago, homeowners are looking for ways to avoid using their furnaces this winter.
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Just wait until the Global Warming moonbats decide to make these illegal.
Plans drawn for Vermont wood pellet mill
NORTH TROY, Vt.
A Vermont hardware store owner who sells wood pellet stoves is planning to build a mill that manufactures the pellets.
Dennis Beloin, of Westfield, plans to build the Vermont Pellet Fuel Corp. plant on a 10-acre parcel in an industrial park and have it operating by Oct. 1. The plan still needs town approval and an Act 250 permit.
He came up with the idea three years ago, and says he now has the backing to follow through with it.
“I knew this would be the future,” he said.
Increasingly, homeowners in New England are looking to home heating alternatives because of the high cost of heating oil.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9250PVG0.htm
They tried to make them illegal in Oregon on time and it really hit the fan. People got together and showed what they could accomplish. I think about 80% of the people have woodstoves. In Sacramento you have to check if it’s ok to burn a stove. I think on a daily basis. People need to stand up for themselves.
I have both a pellet stove insert and a wood burning stove insert in the two fireplaces in our home. The trees killed by pine beetles are an easy source for wood, and in the future pellets here in Colorado. The envirowackos even seem to be fighting the use of the dead trees for lumber, firewood or pellets. What are the e’wacks smoking?
$3.12??
We locked in at $2.69 earlier this year. I thought it was horrendous since it was $1.79 the prior year.
If we'd known what propane was going to do, we may have installed an electric furnace and hot water heater instead.
The oil prices have afforded my 15 year old son a reason to “get buff” splitting wood. He thinks it’s the best thing ever. I’m sure he’ll change his “tude” when he’s 17 and buying his own gas.
Lessons, gotta love ‘em.
mrs
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Winter lasts about 6 months here above 8,500 ft in Colorado. I cut and split about 4 cords of wood and haul about 500 lbs of pellets in a typical year.
Just filled up a month ago, and propane was 2.25, if paid within 7 days. Of course I did!
They already are illegal in many places as are the wood fired boilers.
May God bless you and your family. I was raised in Western NeW York, a very cold place, much like YOUR very cold place. I now live in Jersey, not so pretty, but again, NOT so cold, but cold, just the same. Two cords, we’re good. Two stoves too! 4500 sf house, oh yeah, she’s a biggun.
LOL
mrs
Hey, the Chief likes his house, and he’s earned it!!
Seems to me that a blend of wood and hemp would work very well. Hemp is loaded with hot burning oil that the wood would wick (hmph).
In fact, hemp oil burns so hot that the police discovered that burning marijuana in a crematorium could damage it, so they generally burn it either in an open pit, or a specially made oven.
The northern states could grow a LOT of hemp on marginal land, and made into pellets could drastically reduce the amount of fuel oil used. And fewer pellets for the same amount of heat means big cost savings.
We locked in this past April at $2.05 on pre-buy for the Oct. ‘08- Mar. ‘09 season. Last year’s pre-buy for propane was 1.47. I’m in southwest MO. Anybody need any firewood? We’re still cleaning up from the ‘07 ice storm. It’s free!!
The ‘highly allergic’ will be all over pellet stoves this coming winter.
Keep an eye out for yearly permits, regulation, restrictions on burning days and finally, BANS.
The more people saving money are the more people to gain money from.
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