Posted on 02/02/2007 2:21:49 PM PST by SmithL
San Francisco Bay area air quality regulators are proposing a mandatory ban on wood fires in fireplaces and stoves when the air is bad.
Under the proposed rules, wood fires would be prohibited in the nine-county Bay Area on "Spare the Air" days — when air quality is expected to reach unhealthy levels.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District Board has asked its staff to draft rule options so it can hold hearings on a proposed ban this summer.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
How about a Spare the Rear day to help stop the spread of AIDS?
Should be enough Bay Area air regulators to build a good fire.
I am sure the duraflame I burn 10 times a year is the cause of this, it certainly is not the hundreds of thousands of cars which run daily.
"It is sad that they died but at least the air is clean", said Tempeh Rainbow, a county social worker investigating the case.
Why does anyone choose to live on this planet of SF?
Why don't they just ban living in San Francisco and let it go back to the way it was 200 years ago.
Can a ban on farting be far behind?
Say what you want. But after seeing this type of stuff for so long I now believe it empowers the left to take away pleasure. It allows them to chip away at your initiative to achieve and fight off their control.
50 years ago it would have been called Anti-Americanism.
Seattle has burn-ban days, when a temperature inversion traps smoke low to the ground, and there's no wind to disperse it.
I still think it's silly. Wood smoke is not pollution. Wood smoke is a heavy particulate-laden smoke that is entirely natural and not chemically harmful. It will eventually disperse and/or settle to the ground. There's nothing particularly unhealthy about it.
I think I've even heard it said that it's not done for health reasons, but merely asthetic reasons. They're afraid that somebody's going to take a picture showing something other than crystal clear air.
The job I'm in now... is technically located at our company headquarters in the Bay Area. I took the job on a first condition that I could work in our Bellevue, WA office, and not move to SF. There was no way I would have accepted the position if I had to move to SF. Not for double the salary. Not worth it.
No smoking, no spanking, no fireplace,
Nanny State PING...........
Time to throw another log on the woodstove........
No light bulbs, no grills no power mowers and no chain saws.
California - The Land of NO!
I'm not gonna go there - to SF. Litterally. LOL.
From the article: The Bay Area air district issued voluntary no-burn advisory on 26 Spare the Air nights this winter, but many people lit fires those nights anyway, officials said.
And the Mayor says make love..not campfires.
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