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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/11/2012 02:16 AM, Philip Lloyd
wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">They were not interested in cheap cookstoves! The $500+ stove had come to
represent social status, as well as meeting a wide variety of household
needs, cooking, water heating, garbage disposal, space heating, and a social
focus to the home that even neighbours could come and share. There was a
flourishing trade in second-hand stoves and in spare parts, particularly
grates and chimney pieces. Some people had small businesses baking bread for
stoveless neighbours, or making jam, or even running play schools on really
cold winter days when other homes were really too cold for infants.</pre>
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I think this points out that there are really two classes of
stoves: One with a price of about an hour's labor, one at around
$500.00.<br>
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A lot of attention goes to the cheap stoves since they are
affordable to everyone. Less is going to the expensive ones.<br>
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It appears that an efficient, attractive stove made available with
microfinancing, it does well, and a cheap stove could be sold "using
the same technology."<br>
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While the coal merchants will not be pleased with lower coal usage,
stove purchasers will be. The expensive stove can also pay for
tooling to make cheaper stoves.<br>
<br>
Dave 8{)<br>
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