So you're saying 73.8% of all statistics are made up?
:)

point taken.
J


peter green wrote:
> Jesse Lackey wrote:
>> I missed this thread, but to add OT to OT - Michael Bloomberg, mayor of
>> NYC, recently announced the long-term phaseout of heating oil in new
>> york, with various incentives and rebates and the like for building
>> owners with oil heat.  Apparently, the burning of heating oil #4 and #6
>> (no idea what the numbers mean) contribute more to air pollution than
>> all the cars, buses, taxis and trucks *combined*.
>>
> One thing to bear in mind is that to declare somthing as producing more
> poloution you have to assign "damage values" to each polloutant. This
> means that afaict you can manapulate the numbers to say pretty much
> whatever you want. You can also focus on just one pollutant and hope
> that people who repeat your message forget that you did that.
>> As a former nyc resident, this somewhat shocking factoid makes me wonder
>> just what the heck took so long to address this.
>>
>> Fortunately, here in oh so chilly california, my house was built (many
>> decades ago) with natural gas feed.
>>
>> Cheers all
>> J
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> mcd@is-sixsigma.com wrote:
>>
>>> Mark E. Skeels wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Can it be more economical than natural gas?
>>>>
>>> Like many answers, "it depends".
>>>
>>> Here in Michigan both natural gas and oil are fairly common.  The price=
 of
>>> natural gas dropped sharply a while back, causing many people using oil=
 to
>>> switch.  A couple years later it spiked and oil was cheaper.
>>>
>>> Even if you have a gas main out in the street, bringing the line into t=
he
>>> house after the fact can be obscenely expensive.  With high efficiency =
oil
>>> furnaces, even here in the frozen north it would take decades to recove=
r
>>> the cost of conversion, even though natural gas is *currently* less
>>> expensive.  And given the volatility, it would be a poor bet it will st=
ay
>>> that way.
>>>
>>> --McD
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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