So I wanna update my heating/air conditioning from the not eco friendly

[Mezzo]

oil heat I currently enjoy....er...get raped from each year. I live in zone 7. Does anyone know how I can best stick it to the man? :)

[old mark]

1. We live in SE Pennsylvania

, and we are planning a wood stove installation for next summer. We heat our medium size row house with gas, and ,while it is not as crazed as oil, the cost will forever increase. We have lived with a wood stove before-we rented a farm house where the ONLY source of heat was a tiny old iron box coal stove. It worked fine.

We are looking over convection wood stoves that can burn various kinds of wood fuel, pellets,etc, or cut wood. Supposedly, it will pay for itself in 2 seasons.We are looking for a stove that will eliminate the gas furnace use maybe 90% of the time, leaving it for extreme cold situations.
The convection stoves are very efficient and burn much more of the gas from the burning fuel, and give a more even heat.
Next preject is to replace all windows with energy efficient new windows. We have just finished doing the roof in rubber sheet, and replacing the washer/dryer with new, more efficient units ( electric).
The only gas we use if for house heat.
We want to complete the insulation and have the new windows installed before we install the wood stove.We found over the last few years that even simple things can save a lot of energy and money ( we replaced the incandescent light bulbs and cut our electric bill nearly 30% per month over the last 5 years.)
I would love to get off the grid 100%, but I don't see the technology for that quite yet for our situation.
Sorry to be so long winded, but I am pretty excited by this stuff.

mark

[Citizen Number 9]

2. What's Zone 7?

Climate Zone 7?
Growing Zone 7?
Insolation Zone 7?