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Hi Doug, Imagine what it would have like, without Bore's Global Warming. Hope you didn't break any water pipes. God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O mailto: snipped-for-privacy@billhughes.com

I thought about this a few years ago, and got a propane parlor stove with a microvoltage thermostat. As long as my propane tank stays reasonably full, I don't have to worry about frozen water pipes. I can even cook. I am thinking of getting a gas lamp (available at motor home supply stores) just in case. The following is sung to the tune of Eric Clapton's "Cocaine"

If you want to heat right, you've got to use it at night - propane. All your troubles are past when you use LP gas - propane. It's all right, it's all right, it's all right - propane.

Well, you can heat up the barn and keep the hayloft real warm - propane. You keep it in a big tank, because, ay, does it stink! - propane. It's all right, it's all right, it's all right - propane. I'm hip.

Cheers,

Earle

"L.W. \(Bill\) Hughes III" wrote in news:476304f7$0$25981$ snipped-for-privacy@free.teranews.com:

Moron

Bertie

Hi Earle, And that's the gas we should be using in my neighbor's cars. The U.S. has plenty, and there's almost no refining involve. If we did we wouldn't have to use six times the gallons (energy) in petroleum to produce one gallon (energy equivalent) of Alcohol, Methyl, Ethanol, or Hydrogen, the bleeding heart liberal whacko limps want us to switch too, for their special interests:

Earle, you aren't related to Hank Hill by any chance are you? ("King of the Hill")

A few years ago my power was out for a few days because of an ice storm, and it was COLD, in the teens at night. First night I stayed in my study and between myself, my big goofy dog, and some kerosene lamps managed to stay warm but the rest of the house was freezing. Next night I pick up a fake fireplace (a gas heater in disguise) and that thing kept the whole house nice and warm.

Having backup heat (and a way to cook) is a VERY good thing!

Jeff DeWitt

Earle Hort> I thought about this a few years ago, and got a propane parlor stove with a

Chimney in each corner, ton of coal in the bunker, and a few logs in case the gas central heating goes out.

Guess the cooking ability would be limited to burgers, steak and sausage. Damn !

Dave Milne, Scotland

The one I have is from a Canadian outfit, enamel on cast iron with a ceramic glass front and real fake fireplace logs in it. I got it as a back up but in a pinch it will heat the whole house. I am working on converting the central heat that I also have to gravity feed microvoltage control, which I believe will work without the line power being on. If you ever had to hunt down one of those Taco circulator pumps on the weekend, fifty miles from nowhere then there is another reason to do it. In a real pinch if you have a gas cook stove you can turn on the oven and sleep in the kitchen, but I wouldn't do that without some ventilation and a carbon monoxide detector. Cook ovens aren't really designed for constant duty cycle or house heating.

Lots of my neighbors are converting to pellet stoves because of the cost, but they still require line power. Wood is a relatively low cost alternative, but dirty. Some people here are still using coal.

Cheers,

Earle

A classmate of mine from the Academy has a cabin up in the hills near Lake George with one of the most effective fireplaces I've ever seen. The fireplace has a couple of air chambers on the outside of the firebox that draw air in from floor level and blow it out from a vent near the top. The circulation is pure gravity but it throws a warm draft all the way to the back of the building - never saw another fireplace that kept the whole place as toasty as this one.

He has a fan that he can run to improve the flow, but even with no electricity it works like a champ. Great way to make good use of beetle-killed trees!