Plan to clean air may kill ambience

latimes.com ^ | 06/01/07 | Janet Wilson

[CDHart]

They can have my Earth stove when they pry it from my cold, dead hands. Also, this amount of pollution is a pittance compared to a volcanic eruption. Think they'll try to control volcanos too?

Carolyn

[sopwith]

stupid

[goldstategop]

Solution? Upgrade to a gas fireplace. I have one in my new home.

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

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

Wood stoves are more efficient...and cost less, too...

[JZelle]

Not to mention all the wildfires they have out there.

[P-40]

I’m actually shocked you can still have a wood fire there.

[sergeantdave]

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!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Even worse are Colorado ski towns like Crested Butte and Copper Mountain. They are nestled in the valleys between ski slopes and every single condo has a fireplace. You can see the layer of woodsmoke trapped in the bowl of the town from the slopes. I used to get sick every single winter when I went skiing from breathing all the fresh mountain air laced with soot.

[Gabz]

Nanny State Ping.................

But, but, but.....they always said it the EVIL tobacco smoke that could only do this ..........

[Tarpon]

Right here, air needs cleaning ...

May 31, 2007 - Smoke Plume over Eastern Canada, forest fires, not cars are the cause.

[coloradan]

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.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

We have a Majestic stainless fireplace in our screen porch and a Lopi stove with outside air in the living room. Four cords of wood await destruction after the first footballs are thrown this fall.

[metesky]

South Coast Air Quality Management District

Unelected fully funded bureaucracy staffed by paper shuffling stooges intent on getting their way over all else.

[Madame Dufarge]

Carney said there are "pretty obvious adverse impacts of wood smoke on pollution. If you stand close to a wood fire and breathe, you can feel it in your throat and in your lungs."

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.

[Jack of all Trades]

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.

[Gabz]

What you both said!!!!

[gr8eman]

Next there will be fines for breaking wind...methane emissions don’t ya know. I am serious!

[CarrotAndStick]

But if the gas flame is producing a yellow light, it has to produce soot.

[Madame Dufarge]

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.

Stolen right from the "second-hand smoke" template.

Show me the death certificates.