Posted on 09/27/2022 5:25:49 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
In its efforts to minimize ozone pollution, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) voted to phase out gas furnaces and water heaters. Beginning in 2030, homes will be required to install zero-emissions alternatives, like electric heaters as the sale of fossil-fuelled appliances will be banned. The move is designed to meet EPA regulations limiting emissions in the atmosphere to 70 parts per billion, but much of the Golden State still exceeds that limit.
Speaking to NPR about the ban on gas furnaces, CARB Chair Liane Randolph said, "We need to take every action we can to deliver on our commitments to protect public health from the adverse impacts of air pollution. With the strategy, we can do just that." She added that while this strategy will clean the air for Californians, it will also lead to reduced emissions in the many low-income and disadvantaged communities that experience greater levels of persistent air pollution.
The vote was met with public comments which included some opposition. Retired Engineer Michael Kapolnek said reduced emissions don’t justify the cost to homeowners forced into expensive upgrades. But groups like the American Lung Association and the Sierra Club supported the ban on gas furnaces. Senior Policy Advocate at Sierra Club California, Daniel Barad said the move will reduce the building sector’s carbon footprint and improve public health.
According to a report from policy research group SPUR, fossil-fuelled appliances like gas furnaces in California homes and buildings generate four times as much lung-damaging nitrogen oxide as the state’s gas-powered plants. "To meet federal air quality standards that protect the health, air quality regulators must phase out the sale of gas appliances and implement equity-centered implementation plans for transitioning homes to electric alternatives," the report says.
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California has ceased to be America. Citizens there hae no control over their destinies
Let the Californians freeze- they voted for this nonsense.
Is there no end to the stupidity of CARB? A gas furnace pollutes the air with CO2, the same substance that EVERY LOW INCOME PERSON EXHALES WITH EVERY BREATH.
California is a one party state with a lap dog media and neutered republicans.
The Democrats can and will pass whatever they want and to hell with the voters.
Looks like car A ran into the rear bumper of car B there ...
Good catch.:)
CARB
The folks that gave you that shiiiity red plastic gas tank that spills all over your lawnmower.
The $2.500 replacemnt catalytic converters for your F150
No more Fireplaces
and split wood shingle roofs in a firezone
and . . .
Silicone Boobs
But did they actually vote for it?
You know like a real “democracy”.
Or, was it a series of rigged elections..including illegals?
Glad we just bought a new $7500 HVAC unit. Should last us until we become earth temp..................
“The electrical grid already lacks the load capacity to run everything plugged into it. So of course, California politicians being detached from the physics of reality want *more* load on the electrical grid.”
California currently imports 30% of the electricity it consumes (https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/california-electricity-data/2021-total-system-electric-generation). Imports provide a critical “buffer” as California shifts from fossil fuels and nuclear power to solar and wind generated electricity.
However, California politicians fail to consider what happens when they can’t use the national grid to import electricity from neighboring states to fill in when the wind isn’t blowing or the sun isn’t shining. Arizona and Nevada are rapidly growing states. Are they going to build incremental generating capacity to fill California’s needs, particularly if the renewable generating projects don’t deliver what has been promised?
When the govt with smart meters on homes are able to control your electricity use you can still cook with gas. If all electric, they can turn that off too.
Electric everything mandates have zero to do with climate.
They are horrible abuses designed to make PGE the Supreme Monopoly
And you can bet your bippy that all the government offices and homes of the politicos will have first choice on electrical energy from the not so reliable Green energy system.
More gas for me! I’m all in favor of this.
California needs a Freak Freezing Cold winter , that might wake them up , na it would probably kill most of them
I think one has to consider the real end game here. NG is the cleanest burning fuel on the planet and we have enough to last a thousand years. So what is really behind the push to ban it? Despicable people like Kerry are leading the charge so we know whatever the real goal here is misery will surely follow.
Greta is trying to get wood burning banned in Europe. Maybe she can do Calif next.
As we are suffering from a second heat wave - and I get alerts from my SoCal city NOT to charge up EVs b/c the power grid is over loaded.
The sad thing is, as, in most of America, the core Californians still vote as they always have, what changed was the replacement voters from immigration.
This is true for America as a whole, the core Americans still vote as they always have, but the immigrant vote outnumbers them.
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