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Deep Blade Journal » Blog Archive » Everyone thought Saddam had WMD? — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:54:06 +0000

[...] an epidemic. Even administration dissident Lawrence Wilkerson — who Deep Blade discussed here — re-laid out the winter 2003 case, as cited by Max Boot (in a piece also discussed by Deep [...]

By: Wallsy

Wallsy — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 04:08:23 +0000

That is a real shame. The whole purpose of encouraging alternative fuel here was to bring heating costs down for the average consumer. I guess Sweden and America are cultures apart when it comes to interpreting the needs of the consumer (or is it the needs of the distributor?). I mean it is silly, production of these pellets is minor and cost-effective. Mark-ups on pellets are probably quite generous anway without the need to make surplus values over and above that. I really am a Swede these days…

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 21:42:29 +0000

Pellet stoves have become popular around here too. “Home and Hearth”, a local stove shop, does a brisk business. Problem is, the companies that make & sell the pellets have been swamped, I understand, so the prices have been reaching near what oil costs.
http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=120374&z=0

By: Wallsy

Wallsy — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 21:29:52 +0000

Here in environmentally-friendly Sweden we heat our house with pellets: small, 8cm compressed sawdust pellets which are very cheap, very friendly to the environment and by God do they heat our wee abode in the 25 minus winters we have here.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 10:52:35 +0000

Like about 80% of the people in Maine, we burn some oil in the winter. We also have a wood stove and use a small amount of wood for heat. If you want wood around here, you can buy it (not cheap). Further south, it’s much more difficult to get it the last couple of years on the open market. So if you want to heat with wood you really need your own woodlot.

By: Dacelo

Dacelo — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 08:00:08 +0000

I’m only an occasional reader here. I must ask: How do you keep warm in winter? I’ve been thinking: even if all vehicular internal combustion engines were to cease operation today, is there enough fossil fuel available to keep humanity from freezing in winter for another 100 years? Then I think of the fact that most ‘first world’ people eat oil in the form of machine-produced food. It clearly is not sustainable, and we are so near the brink…….that avian flu may offer an extension? I say this as one who primarily grows 90% of my own food, heats with wood, does not intend to avail myself of Tamiflu, and is as accustomed to the comforts of modern life as anyone reading this.