- Oct 2, 2007
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BTU said:Pellet-King said:The price of pellets makes it not worth it, factor in the cost of the stove, installation, pipes and pellets you can burn oil/gas for many years to recoup, it's all a monopoly and i'm not buying until pellets are under $200, rather i'll use my stove as a conversation peice.
All you people here dont be fools!!
But you will buy your oil from a foreign country, whose people would rather kill you, than give you the time of day and export your dollars to support them, so they can plot how to come back and harm our nation...so you can save a couple of bucks....and then we groan because as a nation we have become oil dependant on them and it's just "easier" to turn that switch on.
That makes sense I guess...like hitting yourself on your hand with a hammer because you have a headache and you want to have the pain go away, so you divert it elsewhere...
btuser said:We can't heat every home in America with wood. Period. I say we leave our oil in the ground and continue hanging our green-colored toilet paper out to the world as long as we can get away with it. If they want to trade goods and material for a promisary note backed by a private bank then so what?
My family went to Strawberry Bank in Portsmouth NH last Summer. Its a cute little collection of 300 yr old homes that tries to portray the lifestyle of early, early America. Some people think its cool but being a lifer in the New England I've seen enough of it. One think stuck out however.
We were getting the tour from a woman dressed in period garb, and she was explaining that this very special house belonged to a very successfull whaling captain who was rich by 1700's standards. I was poking around and asked if that was a closet in one of the bedrooms and she piped up "No, that's a pie cubbord. During Thanksgiving extra pies were made for Christmas and brought up to the bedrooms TO FREEZE UNTIL CHRISMAS!!" The bedroom had a fireplace. It was used in the event someone was dying and couldn't be moved.
This is an example of a very rich household. I can only imagine he/she/them could have bought wood if so desired. But then again, he would have had to pay gold and not a promisary not from the Federal Reserve.
rowerwet said:Oh yeah, MA is trying to do something about oil usage, they are taxing all you HHO users to try out the new bio oil (or some eco term like that) it is a certain percentage vegtable oil if I remember the commercial I heard. (another reason to burn wood/pellets!) yeah and I wonder what was used to pay for the commercial?
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