I got a Coastal Farm Supply coupon book this weekend. They are running an August only special on wood pellets, $214.50 a ton for Bear Mountain or $219.50 a ton for Golden Fire. Wow. Just a year ago, pellets were $149 a ton. Then a shortage developed last winter. The price went up, and I guess it didn't come back down.
Now is the time to stock up.
I got a Coastal Farm Supply coupon book this weekend. They are running an August only special on wood pellets, $214.50 a ton for Bear Mountain or $219.50 a ton for Golden Fire. Wow. Just a year ago, pellets were $149 a ton. Then a shortage developed last winter. The price went up, and I guess it didn't come back down.
Now is the time to stock up.
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 00:40:30 -0700, Larry Caldwell wrote Re Wood Pellets:
At that price it looks like it more expensive than most alternatives:
Seems like maybe LAST YEAR was the time to stock up...
The mills ain't cranking out lumber for housing starts, Canada ain't trucking logs from New England, Loggers are getting a little hungry, less wood waste to make pellets from means you have to make them from logs. Might affect the price a bit. I even hear diesel is high
Pellets are only slightly cheaper than natural gas, but half the price of fuel oil or propane. Fuel oil is currently $4.26 a gallon locally, and will he higher this winter. Coal is the cheapest, but also the dirtiest.
Now is the time to stock up on everything. The whole world is going mad......well, at least it seems that way, sometimes.
Curly
Read a news article over the weekend about a sewage plant that is turning sludge into fuel pellets. A power plant is buying all they can produce right now.
Damn glad I have 3 yrs worth of (free) fire wood in the barn!
I wonder how it would work out if I connected the toilet to the wood burning stove.
Kidding aside, dung is a very important fuel source in some parts of the world. In India, you are well off if you own a few cows and one reason is the fuel they produce.
"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in news:sQzck.14934$ snipped-for-privacy@nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com:
Now THAT's a Red Green plan for sure. Are we related ya think?
Methane digesters are used by some farms to convert the manure to methane which heats water, powers electric cogeneration facilities and the like.
I'm thinking that Barbara Ehrenreich's tongue-in-cheek proposal to use liposuction to harvest body fat as an alternative energy source might work.
It would probably work pretty s***ty.
Randy
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