Re: Coal can save you 75 percent on your heating bill in the Interior of Alaska

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 jerry <GeraldCNewton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Coal is available in North Pole and at the Healy Mine.  It may be a
> little dirty, but for the savings we have little choice. But do not
> burn coal in a wood stove because it will melt the steel.

Coal is available for free on the  beaches around Homer. It's a soft 
grade, but it'll burn. Sure stinks!

With the price of heating oil well over $4/gallon now, loads of folks 
have gone back to burning wood & coal here. We have commercial coal 
pickers again. Hadn't seen any for about ten years. Guys take their old 
beater pickups on the beach at low tide and gather coal to sell. It's a 
subsistence living, but it can get you through the thin times.

Snow in the forecast tonight.

   Jan