What is the Cheapest Way to Heat a Home?

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What is the cheapest way to heat a home?

In theory, a wood stove is. You just pull in dead wood from the back yard or tear down decrepit buildings for fuel.

But you don't think it is the cheapest.

The EPA passed rules in 2014 that make wood stoves have to meet incredibly high particulate standards. That made the cost of new wood stoves skyrocket

You can make a wood stove out of a metal barrel.

But it isn't very efficient, and you have to be careful of the carbon monoxide it can put out.

What's another cheap option?

I suppose using all your pets as bed warmers isn't your first choice.

Do you know how much pet food costs these days?

You might want to consider natural gas heaters. You can even get a natural gas fire place.

My mom's natural gas bill was higher than her electric bill a few years ago.

Thanks to fracking, the cost of natural gas is coming down. It's becoming really cheap.

Except for the risk of an exploding house. Or the water contamination.

Fracking does not contaminate the water, but it does cause earthquakes.

What's another option?

Heating oil used to be cheap, but now it costs a fortune. And that was before the Polar Vortices crimped the market.

I've heard of people using propane to heat their homes.

Propane costs as much or more than heating oil. Actually, in many places, they are equally hard on the pocketbook.

Then I'm down to electricity, but that's expensive.

Get small room heaters to supplement the main electric heater, then use those for the rooms you're in instead of cranking up the heat for the whole house.

I wish solar heating were practical, but that's almost as much of a joke as trudging outside to scrape the ice off the solar cells.

Running your clothes dryer exhaust back into the house and letting the hot air from the stove heat up the kitchen after you've been baking are more practical than solar heating in today's winters.

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