No doubt this will mean higher prices for many.

Its actually a little insane it’s easier to ship pellets across the ocean than produce our own here. Much of the granite stones you see buildings made of come from China. I’m aware of the difference paid for labor but shipping solid granite? Not sure how this globalist economy is helping the lower pay scale people’s of the earth. Seems more like increasing slavery in some cases.

 

For better or worse, we are one interconnected civilization. All I know for sure is that at no time during the last couple years, have I thought to myself, "man, I scrounged way too much firewood"

 

Somewhat related I'd guess, glad to hear the EU is slowing down import of Russian oil...

 

if the last two years havent proven it’s for the worse I don’t know what will. The only bright side to all this is the woodpile

 

Make Your Own Wood Pellets with GEMCO Small Pellet Mill and Large Pellet Mill from Logs / Sawdust / Wood Shaving / Industry Waste

 

Nice move by bosnia looking out for the interests of it own citizens.

 

^^ Agreed on both counts!

 

What percent of the world market does Bosnia and Herzegovina represent and what percentages are the respective residential/commercial market(s) ?
iirc, commercial pellets ship in bulk and are a different size and grade from residential pellets that are mostly bagged.

With global supply chains disrupted as they have become I wouldn't put off buying pellets and maybe even other fuels for this Winter.
Now.

 

Yeah, how about that...some governments still look out for their own citizens!

 

THE NUMBER RULE OF FIREWOOD INDEED! YOU NEVER HAVE ENOUGH FIREWOOD!!!

 

Real question here - has anyone in a fit of curiosity dove down the rabbit hole of what hemp materials can be made?
That's my powerball dream: hit it huge, retire to the hills of somewhere away from the city and ramp up a hemp farm & industry.

(Evidently each part of the hemp plant can be separated out for different uses, and of those - pellets / compressed bricks for heating are among them)

 

There's a hempwood(lumber) startup in Kentucky someplace that I have read about. They need bulk raw materials from around within 100 miles and I guess they can get two 120 day crops in there.

 

Many years ago one of my few neighbors was a Polish immigrant. Old enough to have been in the Polish resistance during WWII. A logger by trade. As close to a mountain man as you’re ever find in Ct. Lived in a cave for the duration of the war.
He extolled the virtue of hemp. He used to grow it before the war.
I worked with him daily. Thousands of stories I was too young and dumb to fully appreciate.

 

Hemp - Wikipedia