There would, however be no exception for burning wood in pellet stoves, or modern, EPA-certified stoves and inserts.
“I have a big problem with it. You are going to tell somebody they paid $3,500 for an EPA-certified wood stove and they can’t use it?” said Kevin McAndrews, manager of the California Window & Fireplace Outlet in Campbell.
First they came for the cigarette smokers, but I didn’t smoke so....
“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.”
I should hope so during the winter.
Ah. Another reason to thank God for rescuing me from California, and bringing me to Georgia. :)
You’ll have to pry my 2 cords of winter firewood from my cold dead hands...
“bureaucracy run amok”
That which is not permitted is forbidden. Take a walk, they’ll tax your feet.....Keep socialists out of the country’s leadership!!!! STOP OBAMA ‘08
They can’t open their windows? Up here, where most of us burn wood, we cannot open the windows at all for months because it is below zero out there. We burn dry oak and there isn’t even any particulate visible on the mountains of snow on the roof or around the house. The wood smoke is identical in opacity to that from the propane furnaces.
When do people rebel? Food is very expensive. Gasoline is very expensive and home heating bills and electricity are already double or more what they were just a year ago. When you can’t afford to eat, heat or travel to work, what else is there to lose?
Loons.
All the leaves are brown.....and the sky is gray.....
” fireplace police would enforce the rules, and neighbors would be encouraged to report neighbors.”
The march towards our next revolution continues without pause or interruption.
We don’t have a fireplace in our house. However, some neighbors do, and they’re only a few acres over, so I can smell when they have a fire going.
It smells wonderful. I love it. I wish they’d burn more!
Memo to the Jensens:
In the WINTER, you are supposed to keep your doors and windows closed to keep the heat INSIDE your house.
Doing otherwise will waste precious resources you think are finite.
How many of these bay area residents think lighting up a doobie isn’t noxious?????
“fireplace police would enforce the rules, and neighbors would be encouraged to report neighbors.”
You couldn’t make this stuff up. George Orwell’s vision of the future seems more prophetic every day.
When is No Flatulence Week?
Bay Area finally catching up? Been winter “no burn days” for years here in the Central Valley. Due in no small part (estimated at 25%) to pollution blowing in from the Bay Area on the prevailing winds.
http://www.valleyair.org/aqinfo/WoodBurnPage.htm
Where can I get raw tobacco leaves that I can burn in a barrel in the backyard just to piss off the nannies?
It’s hard to have a fire under water. Come on big one!
We should just all check into prison, where we can be more closely monitored and watched.
This has been going on in western Washington State for a couple of decades now. The air inversions which are common there, produced some vile, thick air that could last for weeks. It’s a beautiful area, just too many people, which is why we no longer live there.