"Brian Elfert" wrote in message
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"Edwin Pawlowski" writes:

Unless you cut your own wood, the cordwood prices tend to follow close
behind the oil prices.

Are the firewood folks really burning that much fuel to cut and haul
firewood, or is it all extra profit like the oil companies?

Brian Elfert

There is some fuel involved, but mostly "because then can". I'll have to
check out hte prices now, but last year, one supplier was getting $175 a
cord. My rule of thumb is 1 cord = 100 gallons of oil so it did not pay to
do all the labor of cutting, hauling it in, etc. Oh get near the big cities
and that $175 cord was $300 in Boston.