Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-81.182.123.118-20121230010847/@comment-117.7.114.193-20130830065932

Well, it IS indeed a great fuel in the very first days of the game to actually reach self-sufficiency. I mean, all you have to do is chop enough wood to craft scaffolds and Voila! No need of wasting any of your coal nor of enduring the long proccess for getting charcoal.

Let's not forget time is important in the short run when you're painfully starving...

However, I totally aggree that once you get to "mid-term" in the game (expression related to the fact you have enough resources to actually ALSO be self-sufficient in terms of energy), let's just say there is other possibilities to exploit... Maybe more..."unstable" or "complicated"... but, hey, some of us have the time for that kind of investment.