GVA said:
GVA said:
My final push here is:
If I burn 4 ton a year at $250 a ton
and my neighbor burns 5 cord a year at $200 a cord where's the cost difference????????
ahh who care's??????????????????????
And finally It really doesn't matter guy's, to each his own....... RELAX......... :cheese:
NYS
Reread this.......
in the end there is no cost difference.
That's all I'm trying to say. ;-)
Apples and oranges. Two different users, two different houses, two different thermal profiles...
My point is that you openly criticized Craig's calculator, but you were not understanding it correctly. In the end, there is indeed a very real cost difference. An energy/cost balance on the fuel itself is much more relevant than anecdotal stories of who paid what where, but a lot of people don't like the result they see once they've laid down money to make an investment in one particular method and pellets now sell for $4.50/bag.
Of course it's been gone through on this forum time and time again and will never go away, because most pellet stove owners are not comfortable with the fact that cordwood is much cheaper per BTU than pellets. Rather than focusing on the ease of use they get for the higher cost, a fair tradeoff they made, the arguments ultimately end in these apples and oranges comparisons.
-Colin
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