Firewood Sales Up As Oil Prices Rise

[lovuian]

Firewood Sales Up As Oil Prices Rise

By CLARKE CANFIELD
Associated Press Writer





PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Firewood sales - and prices - are rising in New England and parts of the West this winter, fueled by increasingly expensive oil and kerosene.

The strong demand has pushed prices to their highest levels ever, said Peter Lammert, a forester with the Maine Forest Service.

Seasoned firewood is now selling for roughly $180 to $230 a cord compared to between $140 and $160 a year ago in Maine, he said. Similar prices are being reported in New Hampshire and Vermont.

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People going to other energy sources!!!

[Lorien]

1. It would have been nice if the hundreds of thousands

of trees downed by the recent hurricanes in Florida this year had been turned into firewood for those needing it. Instead, it's been burned in landfills (the trees that fell on my street alone could have kept several homes heated all winter)!

[7th_Sephiroth]

3. i saved most of the logs

that hurricane ivan gave us

[Lorien]

4. I saved what I could

but I don't own a chainsaw. There's still a mountain of mulch at the Central Florida Fairgrounds. What a waste.

[7th_Sephiroth]

5. where are you

i'm in pensacola

[Lorien]

8. Orlando

We had Charley, Frances and Jeanne come through.

[7th_Sephiroth]

9. wow

how'd you handle it

[Lorien]

12. Freaked out after Charley

and drove North to wait out the others. Not something I want to go through again!

[7th_Sephiroth]

13. i sat through ivan for all 36 hours

the eye was 10 miles away, so we got 20 hours of eyewall

[7th_Sephiroth]

2. hmmm, i have 25 trees worth of logs, pine

how much can i get for them

[Lorien]

6. Now you're sounding just like a republican!

Any openings at the EPA?

[7th_Sephiroth]

7. gotta pay for recovery from ivan somehow

insureance company, ofcourse, screwed us over

[Lorien]

10. Those are the words I fear from BushCo, too

"gotta pay for the war on terra, so let's sell off the National Parks"!

There's some state assistance programs for those whose insurance didn't come through, and the deadline to apply has just been extended (my insurance company went belly up, so I have none now). Check your local news station's website for more info.

[7th_Sephiroth]

11. our insureance is paying for some

but the policy was originally my grandmothers, and she insisted on handleing her own affairs, and got swindeled

[The Doctor.]

14. Can Anyone join in?

Anyone remember Reagan's Secretary of the interior James Watts?

- We don't have to worry about conservation because "when the last tree is felled, Christ will return."

Gail Norton? - Watts' understudy/ protege.

Now how do you feel?


PS: 'Lorien' is my little girls name. Love it!

[Nile]

15. Pine is not good for fireplaces or wood stoves.

It clogs up chimneys.

[truthisfreedom]

16. my fireplace makes my house very cold. for several reasons...

one, it draws in cold air through all the windows. two, it heats up the livingroom so much that the thermostat is overloaded and shuts off the furnace. three, it sucks the heated air out through the chimney. i think i lose more than i gain when i use it. also, in my neighborhood, you drive in at night and your eyes get irritated and you start to cough from all of the wood smoke. it's not the best choice in fuel.

[Nile]

17. You need to upgrade.

Glass doors and drafting from the outside eliminates sucking through the windows and heat up the chimney. The living room will still be the warmest but then that is what blankets and sweaters are for when in rooms away from there.

[MaineDem]

18. Trust me...we're very much aware of this

One problem is that the paper companies are buying up a good portion of most of the woodlots making it not profitable for owners to sell the wood as firewood.

We're conserving firewood this year...not keeping the woodstove going at night, for example.

[radfringe]

19. we are heating with wood

most of the time.. got about 2 cords left, have to get ahold of our neighbor and find out if has more available -- thinking we need one more cord to make it through the winter and want to get it stacked before snow makes it extremely difficult to unload from his truck

right now he can drive to our wood pile and unload -- once snow comes, he'll have to unload in our driveway and that means we will have to lug it all up to the back of the house

I get home from work around 3ish in the afternoon and fire up the wood stove during the week -- on the weekends/days off it runs around the clock

[phylny]

20. A woman I work with is distraught about the price of oil.

She said, "I bought a woodstove, and I'm going to burn every last tree on our property, and when I run out of trees, I'll start burning furniture!"

Of course, she was kidding about the furniture, but it did force her to look at other resources.

My husband and I hope to build a house on a lake in Virginia in five or six years when he leaves his job at a VERY LARGE, EVIL COMPANY and goes to do something else, and we wonder about what we should use to heat it - we need to do the research. It will get cold in the winter, but not as bad as here in the Hudson Valley of New York.

[Sin]

21. My famaily has been buring wood since before i was born.

since about 77 now we have about 6 to 9 cord's on hand every winter + wood for next year cut cureing and we get it all for free. free wood in the newspaper free wood from landfills.or just plain dead ones we come across.( there better any way)
we have a 8 ton wood splitter + some 25pound mauls just incase it breaks down and have to say its the best heat ya can have little dry but man we have it cooking in the high 80s downsairs every night it gets cold. never get an insert fireplace try to find some place that makes the old large boiler plate ones get your self a stainles steal chimmley and you wont have to woory about to mutch creosuet.
lots of work but we have have no heating bill and minimal cots for the cutting and upkeep.

[imenja]

22. kick