Fireplace ban, fines effective today

Contra Costa Times ^ | 11/1/8 | Dennis Cuff

[GOP_Lady]

Keep up the good work, soldier. :-)

[Age of Reason]

Sorry, but landlocked places don’t interest me.

[Age of Reason]

the smell of wood burning and the site of it are a pure passion for me.

I guess it takes a poetic soul to appreciate a real fireplace.

My own brother, the gearhead, converts his perfectly good wood burning fireplace to gas.

I told my siter-in-law to turn on the kitchen range and watch that instead.

[Age of Reason]

Start on I40 in Wilmington NC

Too warm and too crowded.

[Age of Reason]

You know, I actually love the smell of a coal fire in the winter. It’s a childhood memory. The crisp smell of snow with a tinge of a coal fire burning from someone’s house.

Same here, too.

[tpanther]

It might be worth seeing which liberal freaks are responsible for this kooky legislation and reporting THEIR license plates at least weekly.

[gathersnomoss]

They sure as hell better not bring this Marxist iron fist law to Virginia. I have two cords and I am burning them. Up yours, Brown Shirts.

[gathersnomoss]

And the next target, a$$holes with too much flatulence. Time to invest in Charcoal Lined Boxers.

AmeriKa is going to HELL.

[GregB]

Yes you have to bank the coal fire right.or else....

[nomad]

Use a catalytic equipped stove.They produce little to no smoke and very little smell,just almost colorless flue gases.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“Bay Area residents who violate a new ban on burning wood fires on chilly Spare the Air nights could face some of the toughest fines in California — hundreds or even thousands of dollars per violation.”

Communists.
The government knows better than you do.
When I lived in San Francisco, I loved the smell of fireplaces on a chilly evening when I was out walking.

[Doctor Raoul]

Fines in the Bay Area are not fixed, unlike in Sacramento, Fresno, Stockton and Los Angeles where the initial penalty is $50 or attendance at a smoke education class.

It's not enough to fine them, they have to be "e-educated" so they "believe" too.

Not unlike the Soviet Union, China or communist Vietnam.

[Czar]

This is some more work by the environmental wackos, with the AQMD and its little gang of unelected needle-nosed bureaucrats still seeking a legitimate reason for their existence.

A proper strategy will feature widespread noncompliance.

I never have cared much for the petty dictators appointed by our corrupt hack politicians to escape accountability and voter rage.

We need to start collecting a list of names, phone numbers and addresses of these useless barnacles. It will come in handy.

[SierraWasp]

Ya, maybe the French did have the right idea with their revolution, after all... "OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!! GUILITINE!!!

However, it's still pretty hard to chop off a pin (head) with even a guilitine!!!

[Reeses]

It's safe to assume Christmas Eve and Christmas Day will be spare the air days. The city folk don't have fireplaces so you can't enjoy yours.

[Redcloak]

Is it still legal to burn the American flag in San Francisco on “Spare the air” nights?