ya bob i agree. I heated my home for about 20 years with wood. For about 10 went out and cut it split it stacked it and fed an outside boiler. For the later 10 years my son in law delivered me wood cut and split and even stacked it. he has a side job selling firewood. Even then i had to go outside in the cold at least twice a day to fill the wood boiler. the older i got the more i hated it. Then had a run of hip and knee replacements and my wife had to do it before and ater work and she hated it more then me. So i put in a new high efficiency propane furnace and never looked back. If its chilling take 10 steps and turn the heat up. People dont realize the electrical use in there homes even when things are shut off. Furnance running, furnace igniter, gas stove igniters, Ac running, digital displays, cell phone chargers. Cable boxes, robo vacs, tvs all use power even when your not using them or think everything is off. Sorry but i have no intention of going through a week long outage with 2 lightbulbs and a tv using an antenna and cooking on a fire outside. with my 5kw i can run everything with maybe the exception of the central air and honestly i havent tried that. But believe me if the outage was a hot week id be trying it. I can run it on about 5 gallons a day. So call it 15-20 bucks. About what a bottle of whiskey costs. If my budget was so tight that i couldnt afford 35 gallons of gas to get by for a week id know i made mistakes in my life. Add to that that at least around here even a 24 hour outage is rare. But what i wont do is throw away money so im sure not buying a 300 watt solar generator for 2k to run some light bulbs and i dont even have a cell phone so theres not much else it would be good for.
This sounds a like the basic being told how to live your life the way the DNC wants to force on the gullible populace.
The other half has a heating pad on 16 hours a day due to physical ailments; I, suddenly and I mean suddenly, have hip that feels much , much better if I use a heating pad, when ever I lay down.
I loathe the curly-cue fluorescent light bulbs and have a similar feeling for LED; I like the color of incandescent and they do heat a small room when on , far more that most realize. (before this house was rewindowed, we used to turn them on in the main bathroom and hour before use as it made it more comfortable {but overly hot in summer}).
I do not like electric cooking ranges but the other half's newer glass-top actually has some advantages ove gas, if cooing something prefers a double boiler, the burner switching on-off-on-off if you keep stirring pretty much eliminates scorching that happens with gas or old style electric ranges.
Down home I use old school Christmas lights which are on for six to eight hours a day; yes, I can see it in my electric bill but I really don't care, I also have two tea kettles on top of the kitchen space heater at my other house which was last updated by Dad in 1963
and even after installing new windows, (the govt. did it for free for mom 16 years ago) the temp. in the kitchen without the space heater is between 53-58 degrees and in a hard sub-zero winter I do have frozen pipes problems.
I leave it that way partly due cost (and wall papering and repainting it what it really needs) and I like in the morning turning up the thermostat and sitting with my feet in front of wall furace that is 59 years old, so to hell with solar heating and wind mills, I like my way of life. 
