No. 1 stove oil is required for heating fuel by many and the price has
gone out of sight with no end in sight. I know a place near the
Alaska Range not so very far from here where there is a coal
outcropping and one can go there in a 4 wheel drive or 4-wheeler. I
am going there and see if the coal is still available. As far as I
know no one has claimed it or is guarding it. I would hope that our
good Governor would make free coal available to anyone that wants to
go get it. There is a coal belt that stretches from Healy to Fort
Greely just north of the Alaska Range. It now makes sense to switch
and many in the Interior of Alaska are already switching from fuel oil
to wood or coal.
