When is the price of pellets going to drop?

N.E S4 said:

When I started burning wood pellet 3 seasons ago it was $3.98 per bag now the same pellets are $5.58 per bags. Gas and oil price has come down but pellet stays the same.

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When you stop buying them they will be cheaper. Murphys Law!

SidecarFlip said:

Around here, thats the wife's job.

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It keeps her thin so I can enjoy the fat gals more.........

SidecarFlip said:

Around here, thats the wife's job.

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Hehehe my wife tried to help me lugging bags into the mud room and she fell backwards while bear hugging a 40lb bag hohoho.

You need to train her to put one over each shoulder. Keeps the mams firmer.............An 'uplifting' experience.

slls said:

Oil at $2.30 gal is a no brainer, no lugging 40 lb bags.

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Bah! 40 lbs... Good exercise!

Wilbur Feral said:

Bah! 40 lbs... Good exercise!

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Something has bothered me for a while now so I'm gonna ask.... What the heck is that in your signature picture? I'm curious.

BrotherBart said:

Never seen a pizza huh?

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Maybe they come like that in Virginia but not around here................

My wife and I prefer Jets, thick crust and no, I'm not a Mike Illitch fan.

Well, you gents have figured it all out. Basically it's the stock avatar photo that appealled to me at the moment I had to pick one. May have been close to dinner time.

SidecarFlip said:

You need to train her to put one over each shoulder. Keeps the mams firmer.............An 'uplifting' experience.

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That may be but I dislocated my right clavical by hoisting and carrying too many bags of various things (salt, mulch, soil etc). Since clavicles are only anchored on one end, they don't go back into place. Only correction is surgery, and that isn't real high on the success rate. I'll stick to carrying them lower and don't give a rat's azz about the mams.

bogieb said:

That may be but I dislocated my right clavical by hoisting and carrying too many bags of various things (salt, mulch, soil etc). Since clavicles are only anchored on one end, they don't go back into place. Only correction is surgery, and that isn't real high on the success rate. I'll stick to carrying them lower and don't give a rat's azz about the mams.

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Sounds like it's time for a handtruck/furniture dolly.......

SidecarFlip said:

Sounds like it's time for a handtruck/furniture dolly.......

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Ahh, but if I carry them one at a time, I get a lot more leg exercise - and those I do care about keeping in shape muscle-wise. Also, carrying them lower keeps my bicep strong, so I am good with the way things are.

Really, as many times as I load and unload those suckers (load each bag onto cart in store, unload from cart/load into car, unload from car/load onto pellet pallet, unload from pellet pallet and fill Harman 7 feet away or carry upstairs to load St. Croix), walking 30 feet from the car to the pellet pallet with an armful is no big deal.

In all seriousness, my wife has switched to 2 5 gallon plasiic pails with handles. She fills both and carries both at the same time one on each side. It counterbalances the load. I don't fool with filling the stove, she prefers to handle that, fine with me.

Back to the topic. With the death of Saudi Arabia's King, who was the driving force behind lower oil prices (Not Obama), and the abdication of Yemen's controlling government, which basically gives the country to Iran and their terrorists, oil prices will most certainly be going back up WHICH translates to stable or rising pellet prices. More world chaos ----- pain for us.

Someone ban TJ for saying abdication instead of "Yemens head dudes being bounced"

Fsappo said:

Someone ban TJ for saying abdication instead of "Yemens head dudes being bounced"

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How about 'Running like heck to save their heads - LITERALLY!!' ??

Is she 74.

It is unlikely that pellet prices will drop anytime soon. Their price is not really being driven by Dino fuels at this point in time. The price is being driven European policy regarding fossil fuels and perceived carbon emissions.

It is currently European policy to discourage coal for energy generation. Combine that policy with the mutual disagreement between themselves and Russia, removing NG from the equation, together with their current tax and grant policy that favors the burning of pellets and it becomes apparent that price pressure is mostly export not domestic.

Until European tax incentives against dino fuel expire and or they patch their relationship with Russia it is unlikely that pellet prices will decrease.

As for oil. Despite our current production it is the Middle East that ultimately controls oil prices because there is no place on this planet that can get oil from the ground to the well head as cheaply as the cartel. It is so close to the surface and so easily extracted in such vast quantity that the Middle East will continue to hold the upper hand into the future. Fortunately the main producers their have Westernized their economies which demands that they pump oil to meet budget demands that are far greater than several decades ago. This mitigates the threat of major production decreases from that source, although several of the major producers do have huge capital reserves.

So to the question ,,,, When will pellet prices drop. Only if the European economy goes into collapse or at such time EU policy undergoes a reformation back to coal. It is their consumption, driven by policy, that currently underpins the pellet industry in its current form.

JMHO of course

roadking88 said:

just got oil today 2.19/gal....

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Ya same price here, I might put in 100 gal. but the price keeps dropping. Trying to let it get as close to $2 a gallon as I can get it.

Old Spartan said:

It is unlikely that pellet prices will drop anytime soon. Their price is not really being driven by Dino fuels at this point in time. The price is being driven European policy regarding fossil fuels and perceived carbon emissions.

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Domestic pellet price has little to do with European anything. Exported pellets are a whole different ball of wax .

slls said:

Oil at $2.30 gal is a no brainer, no lugging 40 lb bags.

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Its not the lugging of the pellets.Its the endless cleaning and dust in the house.Its fun the first few years but not anymore...

JustWood said:

Domestic pellet price has little to do with European anything. Exported pellets are a whole different ball of wax .

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Yep, every pellet manufacturer down here in Georgia that exports pellets to Europe sells NONE to the US. I've talked on the phones with them to find local distributors because it's tough to get any variety of pellets here.