Some thoughts on the Heating Season

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Wednesday November 07, 2007 · 8:36 PM PST

2007/11/07 · 20:36

This is my first diary, so

If perchance I have offended,
Think but this and all is mended,
I'm trying to share a helpful notion,
If you can do better-be my guest.

Crude oil prices will exceed $100 per barrel before the peak of this years heating season. If I, a simple country lawyer and retired helicopter pilot can see it coming, the oil industry experts must have seen this coming for months. Why can't we buy ethanol of our furnaces, they're a heck of a lot simpler than internal combustion engines after all and yet we're all buying pure petroleum for our heating needs. Can't our furnaces burn something we grew this summer? Turns out-we can. (More past the link)

A quick search revealed this brilliant article from Mother Earth News back in 2005: http://www.harvestcleanenergy.org/...

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