I've always considered myself to be a Jeffersonian liberal. My son and I have been building a barn this year (he's done 98% of it, and I'm laid up right now healing from a knee joint replacement) and we didn't get any firewood in this year. I'll have to buy several cords. When Jane and I built this house, we planned it for possible disasters, (the cold War was in full swing at the time) and it works on passive solar and wood heat. Don't worry about CO2 from wood. That is CO2 that some tree absorbed in the last few years. The stuff they worry about is the carbon that has been stored in the rocks since the dinosaurs were only a gleam in their daddy's eyes.
Come to think of it, we are out of beer, but some of the meds I'm on have bad reactions to beer so I'll have to wait for a couple of weeks. So drink an extra one for me. And enjoy that fire. I agree with you that sitting by a fire, in the woods, with the owls hootin' and maybe the local coywolf pack howling is about as cool a thing as anyone can do. Cheers!

One of the meds on my list is Tramadol which is a mild Opioid. I have not taken it. Knee surgery is pretty extreme stuff. I'd been going along with a bad knee for 7 years but finally got brave enough to go for the surgery. Glad they knocked me out cold. A robot sawed off the top of my fibula and the bottom of my femur, drove the mechanical knee into the marrow cavities and taped me up. I've been lucky that I haven't had severe pain, like i was warned about and I intend to do all the phys therapy and be on my feet again ASAP, and hoopefully will be able to walk around again.
thanks for the good wishes.