Berserkley Bans Fireplaces

NewsMax ^ | December 28, 2001 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[MeekOneGOP]

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Friday, Dec. 28, 2001

Berserkley Bans Fireplaces

The communist outpost of Berserkley, Calif., infamous for its anti-choice stances on flag displays, freedom of the press, capital punishment, the fight against terrorism, ad nauseum, has now declared war on fireplaces.

The city council has banned log-burning fireplaces in new buildings and - the most tragic news of the year for the crackpot college town's snooty sybarites - even attacked those trendy wood-fired pizza ovens spewing the foul fumes of vegan arugula foccaccio.

Jami Caseber, a self-described environmental activist who pushed the ordinance, calls it merely "the first step to controlling or curtailing residential wood burning."

He wanted to crack down on fireplaces already built, but the new law was a compromise with "conservatives," an epithet used in Berserkely to describe non-leftists.

Michael Gersick, a lobbyist for fireplace makers, said his industry clients would support emission limits for fireplaces. "All we really want is a standard to meet," he told the Los Angeles Times.

The fireplace ban, rather than raising "awareness," is a lesson in foolish policy, said Gersick, who lives in the area. "I love the tempest and tumult of Berkeley. But God help you if you want to act responsibly and expect Berkeley to confront a public policy issue using facts."

[MeekOneGOP]

Did algore, the wooden totem pole, move out to Berkeley???

[Sloth]

So I guess they'll be using electric heat instead, generated at either nuclear or fossil-fuel-burning power plants. Good thinking, guys.

[EggsAckley]

They're threatening that in my county too. A friend just bought a house with a "fake" fireplace, little gas jets. Very environmentally correct. But when the power went off overnight she just about froze to death.

They'll take my firewood away.........from my cold dead fingers!!

[Howie66]

I'd like to see Beserkley banned. Or, at the very least, turned into a practice range for the Navy/Marine Corps.

[Restorer]

This is funny. Back in the 70s and 80s, I heated my house with wood for a number of years. All the greenies at the time were heavily promoting wood-burning as an alternative to electricity, gas and oil, since wood is a renewable resource.

How times change!

[patriciaruth]

Here's hoping Chez Panisse moves their wood burning oven to another town. As long as they remain in anti-American Berkeley, we have decided not to go. Too bad. We love really good food.

[Phantom Lord]

Down here in NC don't need a "real" fireplace for heat. I do have a "fake" fireplace, gas. Nice thing about it, flip a switch to turn it on and off! Plus no log pile, no spliting wood, and no clean up!

[bimmer]

Heil Jami C. enviro-fascist! (psst ... they have smoke-free bars in Amherst, Mass, so don't give Berserkley any ideas.)

[Psycho_Bunny]

I'm sorry, Mr. Robinson...I know the rules about swearing and advocating violence but, Jami Caseber needs to have his ass kicked.

The smell, feel, and beauty of burning wood occupies a holy place in the human psyche.

[GSWarrior]

This is not really new. I believe Denver has something similar.

[nothingnew]

They'll take my firewood away.........from my cold dead fingers!!

Beat me to it Eggs...I dare anyone to come to my home and tell me I can't use my woodstove...(7,000 ft up in the Rockies), they wood (intended) not last a second breath.....Burn, baby, burn...

FMCDH

[blackdog]

Translation= If you have an existing fireplace in your home, it's value just increased by 25%.

I would use a bubba on this one. Could you define "log" for me please? I will burn machined linear lengths of dried cellulose. I would never burn wooden logs.

[Khepera]

No more hickory smoked bar-b-que fer yew!

[tomakaze]

Why anyone with an ounce of self respect or brains would choose to live there is beyond my ken.

[tomakaze]

RE:they have smoke-free bars in Amherst, Mass,

I love the way these lifestyle fascists, anti-fun nazis like to use "free" in regard to banning things.
Hippies suck.

[doctor noe]

What will they ban next? Indoor flatulence?

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Brother could ya spare a cord?

[NittanyLion]

What will they ban next? Indoor flatulence?

Vegetarians won't be banning that, from what I've been told.

[nothingnew]

The smell, feel, and beauty of burning wood occupies a holy place in the human psyche.

You've got that right!...There's no other kind of heat that satisfies like a wood fire...G-D knew/knows what He's doing...Gotta throw another piece of cedar on the fire now....

FMCDH

[End Times Sentinel]

All the greenies at the time were heavily promoting wood burning as an alternative to electricity, gas and oil, since wood is a renewable resource.

How times change!

The problem with this statement is that it implies that the lefties go about things in a somewhat reasoned predictable way (i.e.; reaching a paradigm on this issue and as a group re-assessing their stance).

In truth, this is just another insane idea that flew into someone’s head and in Brezerkly, anything counter-intuitive must be correct. Therefore, no wood burning fireplaces.