Amazingly, I just googled the address and an actual picture of that old house was there!
The tiny window next to the side porch stairs is where the coal chute was.
Posted on 03/20/2018 5:28:25 PM PDT by george76
Rural residents turn to cheap heating fuel ...
Monte Miller shovels a load of coal into a bucket and makes the short journey from his storage shed to his home on the edge of Bayfield, joking aloud that his wife likes to keep the temperature at a steady 75 degrees.
“But we don’t have any problem doing that with coal,”
Miller and his wife, Marsha, have been using coal as their main source of fuel since they moved to their home in 2000. Each year, the couple uses about 2 tons of coal to keep their 2,500-square-foot house warm throughout the winter.
“We heat the whole place for less than $200 a season,” Miller said. “It would be more than double that if we used natural gas. And if we used wood, we’d need about five cords at $250 a cord. You do the math.”
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when the area was first settled in the late 1880s, coal was the dominant source of heat ...
“We were a coal mining town,” Smith said. “That’s what people don’t realize.”
All around Durango, a number of small coal mine operations supplied residents with the plentiful, cheap and easy-to-extract fuel source .
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People are still drawn to using coal because it’s cheap, convenient and can easily heat an entire home, Crawford said.
Because the source of Crawford’s coal is only a few miles away, his price has remained remarkably stable: In 11 years, Crawford has had to raise the price for a ton of coal only one time – from $90 to $100. Other sources of fuel, such as natural gas, fluctuate with global market prices.
“Most people spend about $200 to $300 to heat their home for the whole winter on coal,” Crawford said. “That’s a monthly bill for some.”
(Excerpt) Read more at durangoherald.com ...
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Probably not long before the environmental NAZIs will be on this.
Been using coal for two years now!
My earliest recollection of a chore I had as a young child was taking out the coal furnace’s ashes. That old coal furnace sure put out a lot of heat in our Pennsylvania winters.
20 Mar: Breitbart: Exclusive–‘Smash and Grab’: Schweizer Explains How Obama Weaponized Regulations to Enrich His Buddies
by Robert Kraychik
Schweizer described Obama’s “smash and grab” strategy as repeatedly used across Obama’s presidential tenure, with beneficiaries such as Tom Steyer and George Soros. He further noted that such ill-gotten funds partly find their way into the Obama Foundation via Nesbitt’s financing.
“This pattern is repeated over and over and over again, not just with Marty Nesbitt, but with people like the environmentalist investor Tom Steyer [and] George Soros,” Schweizer said. “Barack Obama smashes coal companies, [and] what do these guys do? They go in, they buy them for pennies on the dollar, and when the regulatory weight is lifted, their valuations increase, and they make a lot of money, and you see that pattern in all of these industries. So what you see is these crusades that Obama is going on related to companies that are supposedly doing all these evil things really has this profit or money-making component to it that I was unaware of, and a lot of other people were unaware of. Now, in a sense, the favor gets returned because Marty Nesbitt is now the chairman of the Obama Foundation and is pouring money into that institution and is responsible for raising it so Barack Obama’s legacy can be applauded in Chicago.”
AUDIO: 23mins08secs
http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2018/03/20/smash-grab-schweizer-explains-how-obama-weaponized-regulations-enrich-buddies/
18 Mar: WND: FOREIGN INFLUENCE? HOW MCCONNELL GOT RICH OFF CHINA
Senate leader, Transportation secretary spouse exposed in new book
As recently as November 2016, when President Trump nominated Chang for secretary of transportation, WND reported on her relationship with China and other concerns including her deep ties with the anti-coal Bloomberg Foundation, as well as her support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership...
Bloomberg gives the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” campaign $50 million a year. The objective? To end the country’s reliance on “dirty coal, plant-by-plant, community-by-community, state-by-state.” Trump promised to put the coal miners back to work.
Chao has also served on the board of Wells Fargo, which has bankrolled anti-coal efforts. Ironic since McConnell’s home state is Kentucky – coal country...
http://www.wnd.com/2018/03/foreign-influence-how-mcconnell-got-rich-off-china/
Can one use coal ash in garden?
Or thrown away.
Does it have to be stored in the dry under a tarp, like wood.
Amazingly, I just googled the address and an actual picture of that old house was there!
The tiny window next to the side porch stairs is where the coal chute was.
Residents in the Fruitland/Waterflow NM. area and the reservation between Fruitland and Shiprock can get all the free coal they need from the Navajo mine that serves the old APS powerplant. A lot of the NW N.M. natives have burned coal ever since the mines opened.
When we went to Boy Scout camp in PA the cabin had a coal stove for heating and cooking. Anthracite as I remember.
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The last time I came across a house using coal was in Rockford, Illinois about 30 years ago. There was no mistaking the smoke and its aroma.
Coal ash is good for gardens in low doses or mixed with other amendments (softrock phosphates, greensand, lava sand, etc) You could also mix it into compost pile.
There is a weekly gardening thread here on FR.
“coal is convenient”
That’s why natural gas never caught on. It is just too inconvenient.
Anyone know of a place in the Detroit area that sells packaged coal? I would like to get some and burn it the next “ozone action day”, just because ...
Dad rented a house in Utica, NY in the mid 50s that had a coal chute and a concrete coal bunker in the basement. It still had chunks of coal and coal dust, even though it had been converted to gas or oil. It was a creepy, dark place to this kid.
Growing up, our house in NY State burned coal. The truck brought it and sent it through the chute to the basement coal bin. Every night before bed, Dad would “shake down” the furnace. (I have no idea what that means!) By morning, cold floors for bare feet!
My favorite place to read for hours was in a chair I parked over the register — about 3’x3’ I’d guess. Once, debris that had collected on the furnace caught fire and flames came up through the register. Most of us ran to get water from the kitchen. My brother went to get his violin to put in the fire.
And the “clinkers, right?
Can one use coal ash in garden?
Or thrown away.”
Not sure.
“Does it have to be stored in the dry under a tarp, like wood.”
I get mine in bags.
I detest the politico class....karma...please come around good and hard....
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