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When corn was at $6.00 a bushel, the gap between cost of heating with propane or electric and heating with corn was pretty narrow. (But corn still won!) Now, in Dec '08 the price of corn has plummeted to around $3.00 a bushel. I actually think it's still going down. That's bad for farmers, and my heart goes out to their families. But that's good for my heating bill and I think it's going to be good for the Corn-Fired Heating Industry as a whole.
It takes a certain kind of person to be successful in their heating with corn adventures. Anyone can read about Dale's first corn stove at the EZBurn home page. His trials and tribulations in trying to make that first stove successfully heat our double-wide trailer was the birth of our manufacturing business, EZBurn.
Energy Independence. That's a wonderful sounding phrase. I love that heating with corn is good for the environment (emissions are Carbon Neutral) - I can choose to burn other pelletized fuels than corn if I need to. And I'm not using up some resource that will take thousands of years to be replaced (fossil fuels). My grandkids need to make their lives comfortable on this planet too. We take the good with the hard and accept that. That's what makes us successful owners of our Corn Fired Boiler. And we're not alone. But it's definitely not for everyone.