Coal Stove Retailer Advertises Coal as "Cleaner Than Wood." (Maine.)

[NNadir]

Our stoves are American-made, economical and provide an abundant source
of energy
• Huge cost savings compared to oil.
• Cleaner burning than soft coal and wood.
• No need to clean your chimney.
• Direct vent available (no chimney needed).
• More reliable than pellet stoves
• Less hassle than cord wood.
• Combination coal/oil furnace stoves available.

One wonders why a store like this one, located at 1315 US Rte 1, Gouldsboro, Maine, would not go out of business immediately, since this is the sacred State of Maine, where all the houses are solar houses, kilowatt, megawatt, peak, peak, peak.

http://www.downeastcoal.com/

Coal? In Maine? Impossible. It would never happen.

[niceypoo]

1. Im sure it smells better than feces also......

why dont they put that in their commercials too...

[NNadir]

2. It's better than burning your furniture too.

[phantom power]

3. There is a special hell waiting for the "clean coal" whores.

Unfortunately, it will be here on earth, and we all get to burn with them.

[mainegreen]

4. But last time I checked trees are everywhere in Maine, coal not so much.

Good luck replacing the wood stove up here with coal stoves.

[NNadir]

6. It is surprising. One wonders why they don't go out of business.

I read an EIA report though that says that by 2020, 20% of Maine's electricity will come from coal. I don't know if it's true or not.

[mainegreen]

7. Well, they are trying to build that coal plant up here somewhere in midcoast I think.

x(

[One_Life_To_Give]

5. How often must a coal chimney be cleaned?

I have seen lots of Chimney fires with Creosote deposits nearly blocking the entire flue. Even places that had a fire not more than a year after the last cleaning. Buit those were all from wood burning. From that perspective I would think coal is much cleaner and less of a chimney fire hazard.

[wtmusic]

8. Cleaner in the sense that...

most pollutants make it to the atmosphere?

MY chimney is cleaner ≠ coal is cleaner

[eppur_se_muova]

9. Ding ding ding ding!

Yes, that's exactly what counts. Don't think beyond your property line.

[NNadir]

12. You forget that Mainers could sequester their carbon dioxide.

If each Mainer were to attach his or her smokestack to a big balloon, they could sequester their carbon dioxide.

[One_Life_To_Give]

10. What is the Customer Point of View

I would guess that from his customers point of view it is "Cleaner". So should we complain about a retailer who advertises what his customers want? Or about the customers that want a clean chimney?

[wtmusic]

11. Let's complain about the retailer who misleads his customers

into thinking burning coal might also be ecologically better than burning wood. There is that implication.

[One_Life_To_Give]

13. This ad been used for years

This isn't part of the "Clean Coal" crap. Coal stoves have been advertised as clean burning for as long as I can remember. Less Ash and don't have to clean the chimney as often.