Natural Gas vs. Firewood Cost Survey

Obviously compiled by the natural gas indusrtry. Burning 21 pounds of firewood an hour would require an extremely large (castle-sized) fireplace, and would probably put out enough BTUs to heat that castle!
Compare the cost per BTU of gas and firewood- firewood is, at worst, half the price.

Eric,
Those numbers in that table are, Gulp, over ten-years old....... I have been trying to get updated data from an independent source but had no luck. So the numbers of both fuels in the table could be way off.

What's the wood? When and how purchased? Dates for these prices? This is irresponsibly incomplete.

I forgot to mention type of woodstove. I agree with eric, this seems biased.

I agree as well. This report does not contain enough information to allow a person to determine whether or not the data is even up to date, let alone accurate.

Also, today's available wood-burning fireplaces are much more energy efficient (and EPA-friendly) than 8-10 years ago.