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BAY AREA AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT: Pass the stuffing and spare the air
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 11/25/9 | John Coté, Chronicle Staff Writer

Posted on 11/25/2009 7:34:23 PM PST by SmithL

SAN FRANCISCO -- Let's hope you weren't planning to cook that turkey over an open fire.

Air quality officials have called a Spare the Air alert for Thanksgiving, meaning the burning of wood and manufactured fire logs is banned both indoors and outdoors from midnight tonight until midnight Thursday.

The use of any wood-burning device, including fireplaces, wood stoves, pellet stoves and outdoor fire pits, is illegal during that period, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District said.

The wood-burning ban covers Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, southern Sonoma and southwestern Solano counties.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: baaqmd; nannystate; sanfranciscovalues; smokenazi; sparetheair; yourtaxdollarsatwork

1 posted on 11/25/2009 7:34:25 PM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL

They can stuff it.


2 posted on 11/25/2009 7:37:36 PM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: SmithL
Air quality officials have called a Spare the Air alert for Thanksgiving

What a bunch of stick-in-the-muds ... next week will start the "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" ban .....

BAHHH !!!

3 posted on 11/25/2009 7:41:01 PM PST by Mr_Moonlight
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To: SmithL

Unless you put an American flag atop your fire, in which case the econazis will respect your freedom of speech and leave you alone.


4 posted on 11/25/2009 7:41:15 PM PST by Hugin (Sarah Palin: accept no substitutes!)
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To: Drango

Yeah, what you said!


5 posted on 11/25/2009 7:41:48 PM PST by SmithL (SARCHASM: The gulf between the maker of sarcastic wit and the person who just doesn't get it.)
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To: SmithL
I have to wonder what monkey-business the AQDMs have been up to....ala CRU....global baloney.

There's ALWAYS something wrong with the air and yet....and yet....where are the bodies of the dead?

The CARB bin Lyin....

The CARB bin killin....our jobs.

6 posted on 11/25/2009 7:42:37 PM PST by stboz
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Have they written a letter to God asking him not to let any Volcanoes erupt?

These people have lost all sense of reasoning.

7 posted on 11/25/2009 7:44:44 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Conservatives THINK people are smart. Liberals KNOW people are stupid.)
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To: SmithL
Happy Thanksgiving..
8 posted on 11/25/2009 7:47:46 PM PST by GSP.FAN (These are the times that try men's souls.)
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To: SmithL

Glad I moved out of Ca to Tx you wont be ostracized for smoking a turkey in your yard instead of smoking a pole at the bath house.

It makes perfect sense that Pelosi represents these people.


9 posted on 11/25/2009 7:49:36 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

To The BAAQMD go Fuch yourselves.


10 posted on 11/25/2009 7:54:47 PM PST by troy McClure
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To: troy McClure

They will


11 posted on 11/25/2009 7:57:24 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: stboz

All human activity leads to death. Just look at any cemetery.


12 posted on 11/25/2009 7:59:16 PM PST by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: SmithL

Surely, they’ll also ban cigarette/pipe/snuff occasionally but pot - hey, no problem man.


13 posted on 11/25/2009 8:39:08 PM PST by Rembrandt
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To: SmithL

It’s horrible. My mother has a houseful of East Coast relatives and they can’t believe for the first time ever, in 40 years, we will have no fire on Thanksgiving. It’s so cozy and wonderful and my mother won’t put on her heater (she has a great fireplace), so we will now have a cold and dark Thanksgiving.

We told her we’d all chip in and pay any fine but she says she doesn’t want to take a reeducation class in Sacramento.

Truly horrible. A real downfall to living in CA. But today I spent the day wine tasting in beautiful Napa Valley; these times offset the horribleness. . .


14 posted on 11/25/2009 10:34:32 PM PST by olivia3boys
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Well, why doesn’t someone file a lawsuit?


15 posted on 11/25/2009 10:41:16 PM PST by gman992
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To: gman992

That’s how we got the stupid agency in the first place!


16 posted on 11/25/2009 10:48:09 PM PST by REDWOOD99
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To: SmithL

BAAQMD can go feed the sharks in SF Bay.

It’s THANKSGIVING, and cold!

BURN, BABY, BURN!


17 posted on 11/26/2009 2:52:28 AM PST by HKMk23 (In the end, life contains only one tragedy: not to have been a saint.)
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