"The one thing that almost no governments do is encourage householders to heat with wood. Fuelwood is the only renewable energy resource that most governments don't seem comfortable with." In other words, even though wood is a renewable resource that could reduce our dependency on fossil fuels, it is being systematically outlawed by the authorities.
The only logical reason for this is that governments do not want to encourage self-sufficiency; they would rather keep us completely dependent on them and the energy companies they represent for all of our needs.
It will all be ticketty-boo, with the oh-so-green politicans when they devise a scheme to stick a carbon tax on wood burning stoves and firewood.
ReplyDeleteIn this northern climate it is important to have some sort of backup heating source that doesn't require electricity to keep from FREEZING to death in the event of power failure (ie. google Ice Storm 1998)