Distant Early Warning radar

[jhetley]

Our home heating oil dealer has set the "cap" program price for #2 oil at a maximum of $4.89.9 per gallon.  This is rather over a buck a gallon more than last year.  To put this in perspective, we burned a little under 1300 gallons of oil last winter.  Degree-day stats say that was close to an average Maine winter.

Lotta people going to be burning wood next winter, people who don't have a clue about how to do it safely.  I can see our Fire Marshal people wincing already.

Comments

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

Apparently Scottish crofters are rediscovering peat digging...

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Minor congruent joke in this, Maine has several biomass electric power plants, built back in the last "energy crisis." All have been mothballed because they're too expensive to run. One is sited right next to a major peat bog, intended to use that for fuel...

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

Oh, just wait until you start getting the morons who decide to heat with charcoal. We get at least five or six Darwin Award recipients every winter in Dallas who figure that they can move the grille into the house and heat it that way.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Don't have to wait. Maine usually has several CO-poisoning deaths each winter.