Word: gals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cost of electricity disappears round the bend, as heating oil levitates to 90¢ per gal. from about 55¢ a year ago, grubbing for firewood in a muddy forest does not seem such a bad idea. A few years ago, a good many Americans could not have said for sure what was being burned to keep them warm. Heat bills were often less than phone bills. Now, they not only know what heats their homes, but millions, particularly those who must use oil, are painfully aware that their bills will nearly double this winter over last year. Solar heating of water...
...about $100 ?$55 for chain-saw parts, the rest for saw and truck fuel as well as stovepipe. Electric heating, which is built into his house, would cost far too much to think about; for oil, he would have to pay about $1,100 for the winter (150 gal. of No. 2 oil are about equal in heating power to a cord of dry hardwood). So the amateur woodcutter has about $1,000 to pay himself for two months of intermittent hard labor, and six months of the wood lugging, floor sweeping, ash hauling and stovepipe reaming that...
...enough caviar to hurt, however: even in Vermont, which is expected to burn more than 400,000 cords this winter (up from 300,000 last year), the heating oil saved amounts to only 60 million gal., about a third of the state's annual consumption in recent years. In the meantime, new problems are cropping up. Wood thefts are on the rise: one well-equipped thief got away with a haul of 35 cords from a lumberyard in northern New Hampshire. And there are more and more warnings of pollution from wood smoke. Wood has little sulfur, compared to coal...
...thankful that he studied engineering for a time since he has had to transform himself into a heating and weatherizing expert who can now discuss R-values* as succinctly as Vermont history, his specialty. In the winter of 1975-76, his 700-student women's college burned 360,000 gal. of oil to heat its 29 buildings. By last year, as the result of installing 900 storm windows at a cost of $41,000, the figure was down to 290,000 gal. Muller calculates that the college got back $20,000 of its storm-window expenditure last year, and that...
...Bowman, vice president for energy regulation and compliance: "We are earning money in a shortage situation?hardship, if you will?that will be used to help alleviate the shortage. We don't feel that our profit increase on home heating oil, about three-quarters of a cent per gal. over three years, is exorbitant. If anything, it is not enough." True, Europeans are struggling with heating-fuel bills of as much as $1.50 per gal. in Denmark and Austria, but that is little consolation to Americans...