May 31, 2007 - Smoke Plume over Eastern Canada, forest fires, not cars are the cause.
Posted on 06/01/2007 6:02:22 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
Throwing a few logs on the fire on a nippy evening, or boosting a home's market appeal by advertising its wood-burning fireplace, could go the way of the coal chute and the ice box for many Southern Californians if newly proposed air quality regulations are adopted.
As part of air pollution plans designed to meet federal deadlines, South Coast Air Quality Management District officials have proposed a ban on wood-burning fireplaces in all new homes in Los Angeles, Orange and portions of Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
In addition, on winter days when pollution spikes, wood-fueled blazes in all fireplaces would be banned in highly affected areas. That could amount to about 20 days a year, district officials said.
Another measure that would require closing off wood fireplaces or installing $3,600 pollution control devices before a home could be sold had been dropped as of late Thursday, an AQMD spokesman said.
Regulators say that with an estimated 5,400 premature deaths attributable to soot each year in the region, no source is too small to target. Numerous studies have shown that the fine particulate matter in soot sinks deep into the lungs, causing serious health problems. But critics, including homebuilders and real estate agents, say the regulations could hurt sales by robbing homes of one of their most enjoyable features.
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Carolyn
stupid
Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Wood stoves are more efficient...and cost less, too...
Not to mention all the wildfires they have out there.
I’m actually shocked you can still have a wood fire there.
I’m happy I left that insane fascist hellhole 15 years back. Californians are living in a soviet socialist dictatorship and most don’t even realize it.
All hail to the Marxist state and the unelected dictator bureaucrat!
Nanny State Ping.................
But, but, but.....they always said it the EVIL tobacco smoke that could only do this ..........
May 31, 2007 - Smoke Plume over Eastern Canada, forest fires, not cars are the cause.
But, wood is a renewable resource, while natural gas use enriches Halliburton.* You’d think if anyone gets this, Kalifornistan would. But, alas they can’t have all of their ideologies at once; some of their ideologies have to be sacrificed at the altar of some others.
*Yes, I know gas isn’t oil, and that Halliburton is at best tangentially related to gas company profits. Californatic license taken here.
Unelected fully funded bureaucracy staffed by paper shuffling stooges intent on getting their way over all else.
And if you walk through the flames, you'll burn your feet.
And if you stick your head in a toilet bowl, you'll drown.
And if you're born, you'll inevitably die.
And if a lunatic regulation is born in California, it will metastasize throughout the country.
I think the eco-nazis are in a muddle about wood fires. On the one hand it’s biomass heat and in the current carbon cycle for whatever that’s worth. On the other hand it consumes CO2 sinking resources. It can be dirty too.
For me it’s cheap heat, exercise and an excuse to buy power tools.
What you both said!!!!
Next there will be fines for breaking wind...methane emissions don’t ya know. I am serious!
But if the gas flame is producing a yellow light, it has to produce soot.
Stolen right from the "second-hand smoke" template.
Show me the death certificates.
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