I would guess that demand for firewood is way up this year, probably due to high electricity prices and last year's very bad winter. Supply just doesn't increase as fast.

I think you generally look to purchase wood that is "seasoned" for a year.

I've got a cousin who works in the firewood business, and a lot of the truckers he used to work with got better offers hauling sand for fracking.

Though that has dried up a bit with the plunging oil prices, I imagine the trucks can switch over pretty quick, but using the lumber for construction may have used up a good chunk of the supply of seasoned wood, and that will take longer to rebuild.

saying free oak, and no one takes it, the garbage takes it. Ugh. what a waste, and some of the branches that fall are over 1 foot wide, I just don't split it for them.

That does not seem like enough oak to be worth the effort.

that amount of wood. Don't jump to conclusions, what did you expect? I had to contain it, the garbage people wouldn't even pick it up if it were just laying on my lawn killing the grass and a box could go in the street, but not loose wood.
and I had a sign on it. and large limbs sticking out. a person could have picked it up without getting dirty or dirtying their car or truck,

Burning firewood is a tremendous source of air pollution.

And US trees are not being cut for fuel faster than they can regrow. Net annual growth on commercial forests exceeds harvests by 47% each year.

Any other resource intercepted before it gets to a landfill is considered a net win.

has a catalytic converter on it and it. Urns hot enough so there are few particulates.

We also don't buy firewood since we have plenty of downed timber already.

you can get a firewood permit for $15 a cord. It's deadfall, fallen trees that have died due to the beetle infestation which is getting worse because global warming makes the winters so mild the bugs don't die off. Anyway, you have to cut it, load it and haul the wood out, but for those with the means it's cheap for your own use, or profitable if you need a little side money. Last year I paid $325 for 1 1/2 cords of mixed wood, cut and split for the stove, delivered and stacked. It will see me thru 2 seasons and it's much cheaper than the cost of propane for running the furnace.

All fracking is is the 19th century rearing its ugly head again. Unfettered capitalism exploiting the environment in the name of greed.

were burning shelled corn. Of course that was when corn was selling for $1.30.

delivered and stacked. He charged $175 for a full cord.