Re:How to live on $432 a month in America
by lolinder on Saturday May 24, 2025 @10:33AM
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Heat is mentioned in passing with literally no attempt at quantifying the cost:
> as far as heat goes, well, one could either pay a little extra in electric for that — or they could have the Amish deliver their scrap wood from their sawmills to burn in a wood stove, very cheaply.
That's it. The line in the budget for heat is there and was left intentionally blank:
> Heat:
You can't just hand-wave away the cost of electric heating at the temperatures they get in upstate NY, even if the 0.04 number is accurate year-round (which it almost certainly isn't), and wood-burning stoves use way more wood than the author appears to be imagining with their "scrap wood" comment.
> as far as heat goes, well, one could either pay a little extra in electric for that — or they could have the Amish deliver their scrap wood from their sawmills to burn in a wood stove, very cheaply.
That's it. The line in the budget for heat is there and was left intentionally blank:
> Heat:
You can't just hand-wave away the cost of electric heating at the temperatures they get in upstate NY, even if the 0.04 number is accurate year-round (which it almost certainly isn't), and wood-burning stoves use way more wood than the author appears to be imagining with their "scrap wood" comment.
[0] https://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/massena/new-york/unite...