27 degrees F! I would consider that a heat wave. The
Prairie provinces are much colder than that on average
and the north is cold still.
Many people around here do use wood but only if
they can cut it themselves as the cost of buying it
cut and split would be just about as expensive as
electric power in Manitoba. I use an electric furnace
but in my original house I used a modern air tight
woodstove supplemented by wall heaters. In cities many
people use natural gas. Oil is being less and less
used as it is more expensive than any other
alternative except maybe propane!
Cheers, Ken Hanly
--- Leigh Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> They aren't making gasoline from this crud, it's
> fuel oil, bunker oil...
> low grade stuff.
> The cost of making gasoline from this stuff is
> astronomical, whereas
> making fuel oil is just outrageously expensive
> compared to cracking it
> from "Brent Light Crude".
>
> Who suffers when the price of #2 fuel oil goes up
> due to your suggested
> reduction in supply... to homes that were built to
> NEED this kind of
> heating source?
>
> Poor people, at least the ones who use #2 for
> heating, with government
> heating assistance subsidies in many parts of the
> country all spent.
>
> The average heating bill in California this year is
> $200 a month
> according to the SF Chronicle/PG&E. Almost a full
> week's pay for a
> minimum wage worker, and rent? Another 2-3 weeks
> pay, and you have a
> warm place to sleep... That's it.
>
> What about the folks where it's 27 degrees farenheit
> all winter long?
> That's Canada, most of it...
>
> I hope they all have high paying jobs (unlikely for
> any rural resident)
> or they'll be mortgaging their homes to heat them.
>
> Burn wood?
>
> Strip the land for every piece of scrap wood, bark,
> and peat until
> nothing remains except mineral earth?
>
>
>
>
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >
> > Canada is the number one petroleum exporter to the
> USA: "Canada
> > remained the largest exporter of total petroleum
> products in November,
> > exporting 2.584 million barrels per day to the
> United States, which
> > was a large increase from last month (2.144
> thousand barrels per day)"
> > (at
> >
>
<http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html>).
> >
> > If Canadian leftists could do something about
> Canada's oil industry,
> > reduce production for conservation, restrain the
> development of oil
> > sands for environmental protection, step up class
> struggle in Canadian
> > oil industry, or whatever, that would greatly
> help.
> > --
> > Yoshie
> > <http://montages.blogspot.com/>
> > <http://mrzine.org>
> > <http://monthlyreview.org/>
> >
>
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