Where are you, protesters?
As with NASCAR, etc, I guess when their is $$$$ to be made.....
"Demand for firewood heats up, creating shortage in some states; Vermont, N.H., Maine hit hard" by Associated Press | August 4, 2008
LEBANON, N.H. - Rising energy prices are driving up demand for cord wood and creating a shortage in some areas of northern New England.
Dealers and timber industry specialists attribute the firewood shortage partly to competition. Paper mills in Maine and Quebec are offering about $180 a cord for pulp logs that make good kindling.
Last week, Vermont expanded Wood Warms, a fuel assistance program that encourages wood use through cut-your-own initiatives on public lands and firewood vouchers for low- and moderate-income households.
Isn't that going to hurt the environment?
Don't we need the trees to take in the excess CO2?
Burning them up only going to add to the problem of greenhouse gases, right?
Maine's ongoing program to sell firewood to permit holders who cut and remove the wood from public lands is seeing a spike in popularity this year, the Department of Conservation said. At this time in 2007, the department had sold 11 permits for 86 cords of firewood. To date this year, it's sold 50 permits for 353 cords of firewood.
Additional sales are expected in the coming weeks, the department said. Anticipated high fuel prices are a concern all over northern New England.
The root of so much of this trouble; chop 'em down and burn 'em, America!
No, not the trees -- the LYING WAR CRIMINAL LOOTERS of the Bush administration and the complicit enablers of the AmeriKan MSM!!
