Staying Off the "Radar"?

billlindley wrote: Last time she was at my house she said how dirty and disgusting my coal stove was. She also went on that I am contributing to global warming and if more people start burning coal we would all be in for it. I didn’t burst her bubble and explain where most of the electricity in the US comes from.

That takes a lot of nerve. Why do people that burn coal need to be on the defensive? Buying oil from governments that dispise us is much worse than using coal. Using coal is our Patriotic duty

I thrive on controversy and love to debate, I tell everybody.

If you really want to (urinate) off your friends/neighbors/loved ones, buy a couple of Freddy's bumper stickers, donation also goes to this forum.

billlindley wrote:It's funny. Most of these "green" people don't even understand what it means to be "green" or, at the very least, are hypocrites. I have a friend who’s wife is all about the environment. She will preach on and on about what we are doing to the planet and blah, blah, blah. She is so up on the environment and how much people waste. She is always cold though so they burn oil and a lot of it. She likes to keep their house @ 75 in the winter because she is always cold. She doesn’t like the light that CFL’s put off so refuses to allow the husband to change the lights in the house. In addition to these 2 no nos she recently purchased a car so she could “get her kids around in bad whether.” The car of choice? A Cadillac Escalade (non –hybrid).

Last time she was at my house she said how dirty and disgusting my coal stove was. She also went on that I am contributing to global warming and if more people start burning coal we would all be in for it. I didn’t burst her bubble and explain where most of the electricity in the US comes from.

The last thing she would have been experienced at my house, would have been the door hitting her in the ass as she left my property.

Most who know me, know that I have heated with wood for years, and a few know that this season I started burning hard coal. The only questions I get are, is it dirty to handle, is there any smoke, and where do I get it.

Being that it's mostly a rural area with only a few cities with more than 30k within 50 miles, most are used to seeing alternate heat sources.

Uglysquirrel wrote:If you really want to (urinate) off your friends/neighbors/loved ones, buy a couple of Freddy's bumper stickers, donation also goes to this forum.

What are Freddy's bumper stickers?

I love telling everybody that I burn Anthracite. I live in a rural area and love the smell of Anthracite in the morning. Just inform them pesky Obamites that they are also burning coal, they just don't realize it every time they turn on their lights, or electric baseboard heaters.
I think there is a thread on this forum that shows the emissions that comes from delivering one gallon of heating fuel compared to the same amount of coal.

Just my thoughts,

Mark

biggreen1 wrote: What are Freddy's bumper stickers?

Check out this thread: The Coalution

Ever since I've switched to burning anthracite coal, there has been no visible smoke from my chimney at all. My neighbors thought I switched back to gas or I wasn't burning that much anymore. Now all the concentration seems to be on those neighbors that are burning wood with smoke infiltrating the air with their smoke from their non-complete combustion. They ask me if I still burn and I still tell them yes, everyday. Then they ask why there isn't any smoke coming out of my chimney? I just tell them it's the new energy efficient furnace I installed, that they just come out with. But we all know better! Anthracite BABY! It's the BEST!!

I was in the process of building a chimney for my home one fall, which is in a high traffic, high visibility part of our county and told most everyone I knew that I was going to burn coal. I told them I'd like to burn wood to save money but the smoke wouldn't please my neighbors, thus I was going to burn anthracite. My comments were met with laughter. Soon there after I was burning coal and the winter came on. Soon everyone was asking why I wasn't burning coal yet. I told them I was indeed burning it as we spoke, to looks of disbelief. Even after I told everyone it burned without smoke they still didn't believe me. Everyone was expecting black belching smoke to pour from the chimney.

There is an incredible amount of misinformation out there. You just have to put on your boots and wade through it sometimes. Take the opportunity to learn and educate about anthracite. It's not cleaner than oil in some ways, like sulphur emissions and much cleaner in others, like NOx emissions. Both put out co2 but coal is higher in output. The oil puts out water vapor which is a greenhouse gas global warming contributor, if you buy into that baloney, which I don't.

Carbon dioxide isn't behind global warming. Temperature increases from more intense solar radiation are causing the co2 increases along with man's burning of carbon. If co2 was causing temperature increase, in direct proportion to the co2 increase, as the scientists are claiming from the ice core data, then considering the increase in co2 from the last 100 years is about 35%, the summer temps in NEPA should be about 108degF. They are simply and profoundly WRONG.

The notion of global warming is simply a political scare tactic to shift the energy paradigm away from fossil fuels.

Pete69 wrote:I thrive on controversy and love to debate, I tell everybody.

I love it!

Yes I burn coal for heat, and I tell people who ask. I have gotten my friend to switch to coal after 10 years of wasting his Mark 2 with wood. He is impressed and has switched. Until the govt takes away my freedom of how I choose to heat my home, it will be with coal mined from my home state PA. And if people do not like my choice, tuff sh** for them..........John

I make no secret that I burn anthracite, but I haven't rented any billboard space either. Then again, I'm close enough to the coalfields that a coal stove hereabouts is not exactly an exotic creature to any of the neighbors. Fine by me!