Guy Fawke's Day is an opportunity to acknowledge North America's debt to
British woodturning. They started it all for most of us and our present
British friends and turners have continued their great tradition and
contributions to the craft.

Don't put your turning mistakes on the bonfire tonight, send them over
here. I just read the estimates for home heating oil this winter.
Arrrgh!


Turn to Safety, Arch
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On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 09:48:03 -0500, (Arch) wrote:


Arrrgh!
^^^^^^^

Turning to piracy now, Arch?

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Chuck, the oil companies fly the jolly roger, and I have to fly a white
flag.

George, there's a Iittle house in downeast Maine where the inhabitants
think I'm the drive up window at the bank. The State O' Maine should be
closed after Labor Day.


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"Arch" wrote in message
...
I just read the estimates for home heating oil this winter.
Arrrgh!


Probably means a lot less to you than to us in the north.

Glad to have wood as primary.

I saw in last night's paper that natural gas prices have doubled since the
first of this year, that's the piracy!

Ken Moon
Webberville, TX

"Arch" wrote in message
...
Guy Fawke's Day is an opportunity to acknowledge North America's debt to
British woodturning. They started it all for most of us and our present
British friends and turners have continued their great tradition and
contributions to the craft.

Don't put your turning mistakes on the bonfire tonight, send them over
here. I just read the estimates for home heating oil this winter.
Arrrgh!


Turn to Safety, Arch
Fortiter



http://community.webtv.net/almcc/MacsMusings

Ken Moon said:

I saw in last night's paper that natural gas prices have doubled since the
first of this year, that's the piracy!

We've always done pretty well using natural gas - but this latest
attempt to gouge customers has me over the top. Last year, I added
insulation and generally tightened up the structure. Lower losses
were immediately offset by higher prices, now this!

We are about to need a new furnace soon, and I've been looking at
alternatives. But they won't let me install a nuclear furnace here...

Man, how I long for that wood burning stove we used in the OLD home...


Greg G.

Greg wrote:

Ken Moon said:

I saw in last night's paper that natural gas prices have doubled since
the first of this year, that's the piracy!

We've always done pretty well using natural gas - but this latest
attempt to gouge customers has me over the top. Last year, I added
insulation and generally tightened up the structure. Lower losses
were immediately offset by higher prices, now this!

So we've got You to thank for this, they had to make up the difference
somehow! )


We are about to need a new furnace soon, and I've been looking at
alternatives. But they won't let me install a nuclear furnace here...

Man, how I long for that wood burning stove we used in the OLD home...


Greg G.

Lobby Dosser said:

Greg wrote:

Ken Moon said:

I saw in last night's paper that natural gas prices have doubled since
the first of this year, that's the piracy!

We've always done pretty well using natural gas - but this latest
attempt to gouge customers has me over the top. Last year, I added
insulation and generally tightened up the structure. Lower losses
were immediately offset by higher prices, now this!

So we've got You to thank for this, they had to make up the difference
somehow! )

I'm about ready to go live in a tent.
Eat berries and s#%t in the woods with the bears...

If it will help any, I'll go knock some holes in the walls...
Relieves the frustration...



We are about to need a new furnace soon, and I've been looking at
alternatives. But they won't let me install a nuclear furnace here...

Man, how I long for that wood burning stove we used in the OLD home...


Greg G.



Greg G.

Greg,
Unsure how long this advantage will hold up but my new place has a Trane 13
SEER heat pump with variable speed air handler. My bills are reasonable,
even cheap comparatively, and you can't hear a sound or find cold/hot spots.

We live in North Carolina and winters will get down to single digits briefly
and the teens commonly. Summers to high 90's. I used to swear by natural gas
until my winter dry, itchy skin flakes largely went away with a heat pump.

I mention the brand because they did an awesome job of backing their product
in a bad situation at another house when I got a replacement. That
replacement unit is the one that convinced me to stay with electricity.

TomNie
"Greg G." wrote in message
...
Ken Moon said:

I saw in last night's paper that natural gas prices have doubled since the
first of this year, that's the piracy!

We've always done pretty well using natural gas - but this latest
attempt to gouge customers has me over the top. Last year, I added
insulation and generally tightened up the structure. Lower losses
were immediately offset by higher prices, now this!

We are about to need a new furnace soon, and I've been looking at
alternatives. But they won't let me install a nuclear furnace here...

Man, how I long for that wood burning stove we used in the OLD home...


Greg G.

Tom Nie said:

Greg,
Unsure how long this advantage will hold up but my new place has a Trane 13
SEER heat pump with variable speed air handler. My bills are reasonable,
even cheap comparatively, and you can't hear a sound or find cold/hot spots.

Heat pumps are popular in Florida (lived 10 yrs), and you almost never
see anything else. But they're not so common here (Atlanta), and you
end up using the resistance heater more often, AFAIK.
But this gas business...

We live in North Carolina and winters will get down to single digits briefly
and the teens commonly. Summers to high 90's. I used to swear by natural gas
until my winter dry, itchy skin flakes largely went away with a heat pump.

About the same here - maybe a little warmer.
I installed a humidifier on the furnace, so the 'dry air' and warping
doors haven't been as much of a problem.

I mention the brand because they did an awesome job of backing their product
in a bad situation at another house when I got a replacement. That
replacement unit is the one that convinced me to stay with electricity.

Me Like Quality! ;-)
Me Not Like Builder Special. :-(

Thanks,

Greg G.

Greg G.:

Why don't you put a nice wood stove in your family TV room? I am
seeing more of that here, and they are making nicer stoves again,
probably due as a response to the last few years of our northern
neighbors getting their eyeballs screwed out of their heads by greedy
companies.

I am in South Texas, and it rarely gets below the teens here, and it
snows little flakes about once every five years. But we have a lot of
those 40 (+/- 5 degrees) degree days where it rains constantly. Nasty,
miserable, weather with the rain.

The newer designer stoves even look nice. Some come with air
circulators, and some are even meant to be built in for that "hey this
was on purpose" look. I am thinking that some of the ones I have seen
would pay for themselves pretty well in the second year. The cheapies
even sooner.

Just a thought.

robert