Posted on 03/01/2008 10:27:38 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Mention air pollution, and what comes to mind? Factories. Oil refineries. Auto tailpipes.
Now Bay Area smog regulators are trying to crack down on another source that they say is just as significant, even if beloved: home fireplaces.
Citing growing medical research that soot causes more severe health problems than was previously realized, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District is proposing a ban on all wood burning in fireplaces and wood stoves in the nine Bay Area counties during winter "Spare the Air" nights.
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If approved, fireplace police would enforce the rules, and neighbors would be encouraged to report neighbors.
"We understand a crackling fire is a long-held tradition of American family life," said Jack Broadbent, executive officer of the air district, based in San Francisco.
"But traditions need to be changed when there is information showing that our health and our neighbors' health are impacted."
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Supporters compare wood smoke dangers to that of cigarette smoke, and note natural gas fires are much cleaner. Critics call the proposal bureaucracy run amok.
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Kathy Voss-Jensen and Joel Jensen favor the rules. Three years ago, the Redwood City couple got a new neighbor who burns wood nearly every winter day despite their requests to limit it.
"It's very noxious and irritating," she said. "We have to keep our windows closed tight for several hours a day. And we have to keep them closed all night."
Others say the proposal goes too far.
"I think this is a precursor to banning all wood burning. It is a camel's nose under the tent," said Steve Drenker, a Los Altos sales manager whose 1950s ranch home has a fireplace.
Drenker burns only dry oak, he said, and his fires do not smoke up the neighborhood.
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They (cities and counties) won’t go after illegal aliens and their complaint is lack of man power. But they will go after your wood burning fire place
It’s not just in Kalifornia...
Check out this from Illinois:
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=140997
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“”Kenneth Dubinski of Elk Grove Village is leading a group seeking to prevent wood smoke from wafting through the air, pushing to ban what he calls the new secondhand smoke. He is working to galvanize support on the heels of a statewide tobacco smoking ban.””
This guy pushed the SHS and Smoking Bans, which passed in Illinois, now he has to find something else to do to pay the mortgage.
Looks like your typical mincing socialist fag who wants the government and its guns to force everyone to live the way he wants.
Absolutely, and that is the correct use of the word ‘Fag’ in my opinion. I don’t use that word to describe Homosexuals but use it to describe people like him.
“All hail father tree”
Except the ones that block neighbors solar panels, they’re EVIL (sarc)
“get religion”
already got one..Climate Change
Hey, good to see ya buddy. I hope all is well.
Good to see you as well. I’ve been hiding from the authorities for over two years.
Hows been you?
About as good as can be, considering my state of residence. I am working Dave Ramsey’s plan and could break free from the chains of MI soon.
Laura Earl and I are doing great. Dave Ramsey is pretty good but I’m not sure I agree with his advice on life insurance for young people.
I get his logic, but then it is just me and my mutt, so I understand I might have different worries.
Gotta hit the road...
This is unintentionally hilarious coming from Bay Area regulators, where there are other peculiar "traditions," which "impact" public health.
That is a different demographic. Later
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