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Old 07-17-2008, 01:45 PM
 
Location: Chaos Central
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I only spend a week or two a year there over the past 30 years so what do I know. I do know one thing though, Maine is not for beginners.
Unless they're born here?
You just reminded me of something. I once tried very hard to learn a new foreign language, and I'm about as good with foreign languages as I am brain surgery. Hint: I'm not a brain surgeon.

So I'm strugging along, trying to pronounce things properly and my teacher, a native speaker, was finding my errors very humorous. Finally in despair and some embarrassment I exclaimed, "stop giggling at me! It's a really hard language, you know". Laughing even harder, he replied, "No it's not. It's so simple, even our little children can speak it". Well I had to laugh with him at that.

Um...nothing to do with oil prices, but there, I've said the key words
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Old 07-17-2008, 01:50 PM
 
Location: Forests of Maine
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I just don't want to put a wood fueled stove in the tinderbox I live in.
Opps, sorry. I forget sometimes that folks live in flammable houses.

I went for a steel house as it is easier to make into a 'Faraday Cage'.



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... Is the average ground temp too low for a ground source heat pump? It shouldn’t be that much colder than New Hampshire.
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Where do I find "Listen to 'Hot and cold' with Tom Gozce and Professor Dick Hill".
WVOM FM 103.9

WVOM - 103.9 FM Howland, ME


Saturday

7:00AM - 10:00AM: Hot and Cold with Tom Gocze and Professor Dick Hill
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Old 07-17-2008, 09:54 PM
 
Location: Corinth, ME
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Where do I find "Listen to 'Hot and cold' with Tom Gozce and Professor Dick Hill".
I did not know Hot and Cold (http://www.hotandcold.tv/Site/Hot_%26_Cold.html - broken link) was a TV show too... I catch them on the radio

oops... I need to read before I type I guess...

Last edited by starwalker; 07-17-2008 at 09:54 PM.. Reason: too quick on the trigger finger
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Old 07-24-2008, 11:53 PM
 
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I think conservation trumps everything. Costs nothing, relatively easy to adopt, if not a tad uncomfortable or inconvenient at times.

“We have only two modes—complacency and panic.”
—James R. Schlesinger, the first energy secretary, in 1977, on the country's approach to energy
Great post and excellent quote!
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Old 07-25-2008, 08:09 AM
 
Location: Indiana Uplands
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Conservation and efficiency are keys whenever possible. Another good item is that oil prices have been dropping significantly over the past few weeks. Hopefully this trend will continue, but their are no guarantees of course.
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Old 07-27-2008, 09:02 AM
 
Location: Freeport ME
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......Another good item is that oil prices have been dropping significantly over the past few weeks. Hopefully this trend will continue, but their are no guarantees of course.
Good luck with that dream...
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Old 01-25-2011, 07:12 PM
 
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I will not repeat another winter here again. This is ridiculous. I am burning up my hard earned money. I am a Mainiac and I will be back during the 3 seasons but that is all.
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Old 01-25-2011, 07:27 PM
 
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I will not repeat another winter here again. This is ridiculous. I am burning up my hard earned money. I am a Mainiac and I will be back during the 3 seasons but that is all.
You know the old saying if you're a Mainer...If you can't stand the winters you don't deserve the summers!!
I'm not planning to leave but I'm with you on the price of oil and winter in general!!
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Old 01-25-2011, 07:33 PM
 
Location: Forests of Maine
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I will not repeat another winter here again. This is ridiculous. I am burning up my hard earned money. I am a Mainiac and I will be back during the 3 seasons but that is all.
Over all it has been such a mild winter, right now we finally are having a quick bit of cold. No big deal.

Why are you freaking out over it?
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Old 01-25-2011, 08:04 PM
 
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But HOW does one plan for a 300% increase in one's oil bill in less that four years? It is unimaginable. No one could have expected it or planned for it.
I don't know about that--people have been telling us for decades that the oil would become harder and harder to get, which means oil would become even more and more expensive in the years ahead.

Just as many of those same people are trying to tell us today that oil is going to become even harder to get and so even more expensive.

Once the Third World becomes fully industrialized, that will be several billion more people competing for the same oil and gas we have been buying.

I believe I heard that in a few more years, we will need to discover the equivalent of a new Saudi Arabia oil field every seven years to keep up with demand.

One thing worrying me is the possiblity that although many people like me can afford high heating costs--nonetheless we could move to Maine, pay good money for a house, settle in, and then find our neighbors deserting the town in a few short years because they can't afford the rising heating costs and diminishing incomes from lower and lower paying jobs . . . if they can even find one.

This would leave people like me from out of state, surrounded by boarded up houses--living in ghost towns.
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