I calculated we get through only one and a half a cubic feet a day, which at £175 a tonne means we're still paying £125.14 a year less than before – that's with no more than 21 trips a day to the pile and one and a half hours splitting logs.
But many punters have also complained, saying that races now look less competitive than before, that results are less predictable, that the "best" horse wins less often.
In the previous three years, the Belmont Stakes offered grand theater: the Triple Crown was on the line, but each time the horse who had won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness lost by a few yards or less before crowds that rose to 85,000.
The issue was much less prominent before that time, Mr. Rudel said, when attendance was more robust and the company presented some 20 productions a season, compared with the 5 of the past two seasons.
The U.S. admitted only 10,500 refugees in the first six months, which means it's unlikely to even reach the ceiling of 45,000 set for the year ― which was already 10,000 less than the previous year, and 40,000 less than the one before that.
Four had been shot dead and dozens wounded protesting another abduction less than a week before that.
Also, the bulk of the cables concern the last decade so we may have less success with events before that.
Yet many investors are "disconnected from the stock market these days and that's understandable," Mr. Hickey said, given the enormous losses suffered in the financial crisis and in the collapse of the Internet bubble less than a decade before that.
"I worked for about 7 years in nightclub security, with a few less exciting factory jobs before that.
