Often given away as door prizes at firewood events, your value is far above your price.
Available online as an eXcel spreadsheet, you are freely available to anyone with a modem.
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In hand as a circular slide rule you make price comparisons a snap.
Your ass/u/me/tions are plainly printed on your backside.
I can turn your inner self to "$33.33 per million BTU" and find my last price for #2 heating fuel and see instantly a cord of seasoned firewood is worth $511.60 to me, but I could heat for the same price with electric if only my price per kwh was 11.1 cents.
When my friends in the corn belt reported propane at $5.00 gallon last winter I had to turn your inner self to "$70.00 per million BTU" to understand (ouch) their pain.
When I read in the newspaper that when NG gets here it is going to cost about $22 for 1000 cft I can quickly see I'll still be burning wood for primary heat.
Your usefulness is nearly endless, your plastic construction is immortal. I see when #2 oil gets to $8.59/ gallon I'll need to upgrade to version 2.0, but on that day every cord of wood I own will be worth $1151 each.
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Available online as an eXcel spreadsheet, you are freely available to anyone with a modem.
(broken link removed)
In hand as a circular slide rule you make price comparisons a snap.
Your ass/u/me/tions are plainly printed on your backside.
I can turn your inner self to "$33.33 per million BTU" and find my last price for #2 heating fuel and see instantly a cord of seasoned firewood is worth $511.60 to me, but I could heat for the same price with electric if only my price per kwh was 11.1 cents.
When my friends in the corn belt reported propane at $5.00 gallon last winter I had to turn your inner self to "$70.00 per million BTU" to understand (ouch) their pain.
When I read in the newspaper that when NG gets here it is going to cost about $22 for 1000 cft I can quickly see I'll still be burning wood for primary heat.
Your usefulness is nearly endless, your plastic construction is immortal. I see when #2 oil gets to $8.59/ gallon I'll need to upgrade to version 2.0, but on that day every cord of wood I own will be worth $1151 each.
