Soaring Fuel Prices Stoke Rush to Stockpile Firewood Across U.S.

Soaring prices for natural gas, propane and oil are pushing many to try heating their homes at least partially with old-fashioned wood

A worker splits wood at Zia Firewood in Albuquerque.Photographer: Adria Malcolm/Bloomberg
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Amid the inflation surge that’s rippled through the U.S. economy and touched thousands upon thousands of products, one of the more obscure items on the list is firewood.

It’s a fuel from earlier times, so niche an industry that no one appears to even try to track pricing on a national level.