"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?


Take our situation. They can haul it sixty miles one way and get ~$65 a
cord (sells by weight, not volume) as pulp, or ten miles and hook George for
$90.

Oil companies are making more or less the same per cent profit as always per
barrel, but if the price goes up, the total dollars do as well, enabling the
press to state that their profits are "at record levels."