Home heating oil

[goddessfarmer]

On 10/02/01 the tank was filled.
on 11/10/03 the tank was topped off with 102.9 Gal
on 10/17/06 (today) we purchased 134.5 gal to fill the tank.
Firewood may be hard work, but I'm happy with it.

Comments

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

firewood rocks :)

and then sometimes the world opens up, and magically, there's all this free wood. we used to have all the pallets we could cart home. for free. hard stuff, burned well. also a butt load of maple and oak. then neighbors needed fallen trees downed or removed. yay more free wood.

also, yay axes :>

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[quietann.livejournal.com]

It's good for you, but...

Retrofitting everyone for woodstoves? I can't see it happening. How many woodstoves would we need, for example? Our little stove can be used to heat the downstairs from rat room to stairway, and the bedroom and computer room directly above it. Not the bedroom above the kitchen, really. So maybe half the house.

We could chop down all the trees on our property and burn them; it might take a few years to use them all. But then what? And we actually have the property with the trees.

Not that I'm saying that there's an infinite supply of oil -- there isn't -- but I do sometimes get a cynical streak when contemplating your situation, as you *have the money* to go green but most people do not.

[chocorua.livejournal.com]

From 2001 through 2008 or so, we will be using wood from two projects to re-clear grown up fields, and two project to cut the trees along the edge of a field back to the stone wall (probably 25 years growth). We could get by on 5-8 intensively-managed acres but because of the land we've protected, we have another four miles of stone wall to expose; wood for my lifetime anyway.

Keep in mind that most urban and suburban areas waste enormous amounts of wood, mostly as chips made by the DPW and tree guys. The first person in one of these areas to install a chip-burning furnace will feel like the early bio-diesel people did with fryer oil - you get it for nothing because otherwise they'd have to pay to dump it. The other strategy is to find open conservation land that needs the same "clear the field back to its original size" done to preserve the habitat, view or whatever.