LyondellBasell (Houston Tx) announced it would shut its refinery by 2024

My MIL at 82 said she has to go back to burning wood next winter full time. It always kept the house warm for the last 60 years. She’s in northern Maine and only 2 oil companies deliver there. Last fill up in early March cost her $1100! That’s what I heat twice the house and a large garage for a year when I buy wood and not cut my own.

 

There will be lots of chimney fires next year from folks burning green wood!

 

Yes unfortunately. Some people will probably be burning their furniture to stay warm and eating cat food too, providing there will be any!

 

There is already an uptick in people asking questions about new installs on that other site...unusual traffic for this time of year.
I'm sure there will be all too many people buying old junk stoves, doing slipshod installs, and burning green wood...

 

With unsafe chimneys! I still remember the 70’s.

 

Posted this in another conversation. Interesting talk on how and why a lot of stuff is happening, deals with multiple things including fuel....

 

Just ordered my summer fill of #2 HO. I was given a price of $5.19/gal. Glad I only need 3/8 of a tank. Should be coming next week.

 

I cannot emphasize enough about PRAYING! voting, too many chances of Problems, peaceful protesting, all it would take is one person, and then, every thing could explode.

 

Well...thats still where you have to start.
We're The "United" States of America. This admin, and the rest of the elite political classes, want to "divide and concur". United is the only way to stop them.

 

Not just firewood or prepping bias sites either.

 

You could scream it from the roof tops, and people will still burn green wood.
Sometimes out of necessity, but most times out of ignorance.
Non-burners (or new burners) simply don't know that oak takes 3 years to dry. (In our humid climate with damp soil).
And, of course, they'll blame the stove or say their flue is too short...'cause their wood was dry when they cut standing dead trees.
Or worse yet, we have a local chimney guy here that tells his (owb) customers to throw wood in that was cut today. Even brags about...
Maybe he likes to drum up business that way,idk.

 

Can't see why he wood get any biz from that most of those stacks are pretty short and the creo just runs down the sides for those that toss everything except the kitchen sink at them.

 

He installed some junk wood burner in my FIL's basement and told him the same thing. FIL had creo running out the cracks.
He had burned the same octopus wood stove for over 50 in his basement.
He shoulda known better than to trust an amish guy that only sold one brand of wood furnace...made by the amish.
He kept calling it a reburn stove or secondary air stove or something, but it doesn't have secondary air tubes.
My neighbor and a coworker both bought the same thing. The neighbor's always has a stream of blue smoke coming out the chimney.