You can't do the math that way . You are wanting to compare them to by cost per pound. You have to compare them on cost to HEAT the house. 5000 dollars worth of pellets at 185 a ton!! That's 27 tons of pellets. That's a lot of winters worth of heat. Plus no one wants to add the cost to haul the wood, cut the wood, handle the wood. You have to figure in the cost of a saw. Yes you may have one but any cost analasis has to figure part of it in. NO saw needed for pellets. Just have them delivered or 1 trip to rural king tsc, southern states, tons of places.

After 50 winter in the Arctic I could care less about burning wood. When I built our house it was electric to heat with. That lasted for 10 years when the price tripled. We went to wood for the next 10 years then to oil fired boiler and wood backup. I had a wood room that would hold 1/2 cord of split wood and chute that held a week of wood just across from the wood stove.
Now our backup is a Harmon pellet stove and has a 12 volt car battery if the power goes out. I have a 7 k generator for backup so the battery is good for up to 16 hours.
At my age and physical condition this all works well for us. Just need $.

The numbers are just fine. They are based off of the numbers that posco posted back on page one. With those numbers, 27 tons of pellets have the same amount of BTU's as ten cords of oak. How much does a cord of oak cost? Take that number and add a zero to the end of it and you have your cost analysis. You could also work it in reverse. Take the amount of pellets (in tons) that you use a year and multiply it by the BTU's that are in it. Then divide by the number of BTU's in a cord of wood.