Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Really?!! Every garage up her eis begging for good quality drain oil. All I ever have is milky hydraulic oil that they won't touch.
Heating Oil 40 Yrs Old
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Really?!! Every garage up her eis begging for good quality drain oil. All I ever have is milky hydraulic oil that they won't touch.
Todd M
Craftsman of metals...always learning.
We've been here for 6 years and I'm still figuring out the mentality of some folks. I grew up in IN, so I'm all about free heat, as it gets colder and stays cold longer there. Grew up with wood heat and wouldn't have anything else. There are plenty of wood burners around, but also plenty of people who either don't want to go to the trouble of cutting wood/scrounging oil; or they just don't need to (can afford outrageous power bills to run the hvac). I know of 2 familys that pay between $400-$600 per month in winter to heat there large houses. Income supports it, so why bother?
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Waste oil burning has been banned in WA for at least 30 years. All wood stoves have to have a catalytic converter. When I moved here in 1972, forest wood permits were $5 for five cords and USFS was glad to have you clean up slash piles and around the roads. It is now $40 a cord and you can only cut standing dead trees (no cedar). Plus they have closed all the logging roads since there is no more logging of federal managed land.
I heat with natural gas that runs about $750 a year if it doesn't get below zero very often. I took out the wood stove the year after the air quality people banned wood stoves for 65 days one winter and I had to heat with electricity.
Of course if you are on one of the many Indian Reservations, you are exempt from any of this. Only the EPA can stop oil and wood burning and they have no enforcement branch here. This is why the state is so strict so the smoke doesn't get to bad for the folks in Idaho and Montana.
I heat with natural gas that runs about $750 a year if it doesn't get below zero very often. I took out the wood stove the year after the air quality people banned wood stoves for 65 days one winter and I had to heat with electricity.
Of course if you are on one of the many Indian Reservations, you are exempt from any of this. Only the EPA can stop oil and wood burning and they have no enforcement branch here. This is why the state is so strict so the smoke doesn't get to bad for the folks in Idaho and Montana.
Todd M
Craftsman of metals...always learning.
I did not know wast oil burning was banned. I do know about the clean air agency..a real pain. Friend of mine got a $1000 fine for burning on a Ban day. He went in and talked common sense to the guy in the office and got it reduced to $100.
I plan to put a EPA approved stove in our house so can still burn on stage 1 ban days.
I plan to put a EPA approved stove in our house so can still burn on stage 1 ban days.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Waste oil burning has been banned in WA for at least 30 years. All wood stoves have to have a catalytic converter. When I moved here in 1972, forest wood permits were $5 for five cords and USFS was glad to have you clean up slash piles and around the roads. It is now $40 a cord and you can only cut standing dead trees (no cedar). Plus they have closed all the logging roads since there is no more logging of federal managed land.
I heat with natural gas that runs about $750 a year if it doesn't get below zero very often. I took out the wood stove the year after the air quality people banned wood stoves for 65 days one winter and I had to heat with electricity.
Of course if you are on one of the many Indian Reservations, you are exempt from any of this. Only the EPA can stop oil and wood burning and they have no enforcement branch here. This is why the state is so strict so the smoke doesn't get to bad for the folks in Idaho and Montana.
Holy crap! And I thought NY was crazy!