Off Grid Attack: EPA To Outlaw Many Wood Burning Stoves

Off Grid Survival ^ | Jan 7 | Rob Richardson

[xzins]

Our ever so helpful government has decided that your wood burning stove is now a danger to the world. In another attempt to outlaw the off grid lifestyle, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the same agency that was recently caught using drones to spy on Americans, is now going after home owners who use Wood Burning Stoves to heat their homes.

Shortly after the re-election of President Obama, the agency announced new radical environmental regulations that threaten to effect people who live off the grid. The EPA’s new environmental regulations reduce the amount of airborne fine-particle matter from 15 micrograms to 12 micrograms per cubic meter of air.

This means that most wood burning stoves would now fall into a class that would deemed unacceptable under these new draconian measures. The EPA has even launched a nifty new website called burn wise to try to sway public opinion.

On their site, while trying to convince people to get rid of their old stoves and buy the new EPA-certified stoves, they state that these older stove must be scraped and cannot be resold.

From the EPA Site:

The local air pollution agency says I can’t sell my old wood stove to help pay for an EPA-certified wood stove. Why is that? Replacing an older stove with a cleaner-burning stove will not improve air quality if the older stove is reused somewhere else. For this reason, wood stove change out programs usually require older stoves to be destroyed and recycled as scrap metal, or rendered inoperable.

Let’s hope this doesn’t fall under the jurisdiction of the newly created Department of Homeland Security Environmental Justice Units? The next thing you know we might all be getting a knock at the door….. Your Neighbor reported that you might be burning some wood, do you mind if we take a look around?

[xzins]

15K would take 4-5 years to break even if formerly using propane or oil. That is way too expensive for most.

Are the ceramics supposed to hold heat? Less wood, even if dry, would also mean more frequent filling. Even in our -13 weather this winter, I was filling at about 9-10 pm, and not again until about 6-7 the following morning. I used my best locust, oak, walnut, or cherry during the nights, but I always had a big stack of coals for the morning feeding. Worked like a charm.

[RedMonqey]

$8000 is abit much for my area. Although Tennessee isn't that far from Ohio, we seem to escape the brutally cold winters you folks get and our cold season is a bit milder and shorter.

However if I was a younger man with a bigger brood of young ones to keep warm(and keep the heat inside from their comings and goings), I would strongly consider switching over to it.

But I'm getting old and, frankly set in my ways and will use the set up I've got.

But thanks again for the info. Might come in handy as advice for friends and relatives to consider...

Red.

[snooter55]

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