Posted on 10/27/2012 12:57:53 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Light a fire on a bad air day and you may be going to smoke school -- or pay a $100 fine if you refuse.
The Bay Area's air pollution district is getting tougher this year on scofflaws, violators of its four-year-old rule banning home or business owners from burning wood fires in chimneys and stoves during Spare the Air alerts.
First-time violators used to get off with a written warning, but they won't anymore.
Effective Nov. 1, when the cold weather Spare the Air season begins, first-time offenders will be required to take a class online or read written materials on the health hazards of wood smoke. Afterward, they must pass a 10-question quiz.
Play hooky and blow off the requirement, and a wood burner will be fined $100 by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.
"We think people have had enough time to become familiar with our rule as we're going into its fifth season," said Kristine Roselius, air district spokeswoman. "The point is about educating people to protect public health from smoke on the few days a year when meteorological conditions lead us to forecast violations of federal health standards for air quality."
In another change this year, the air district will use more conservative criteria in calling Spare the Area alerts at lower pollution levels.
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We will just pass another bond issue and pay that off. It’s only $617 billion. Bonds don’t cost us anything.
lol.
exactly. People do not understand that they will be paying for bonds
Reported for threat of violence.
OK, I am done, you are a real creep.
You are joking, right?
A vile and seething pox be upon CARB and its lackeys in the APCDs.
I suggest you ask the moderator to delete your account, since you cannot carry on like an adult... sonny boy (that’s how you are behaving, not like a person of the dignity of the years you profess).
I am done wasting my time with this stupid, useless creep, not with Freerepublic! I have invested my money to keep this site running!
So have I given; and I was Freep-born before you were.
You are battling a boogie you see under the bed.
Creep? Who you want to violently assault? Why don’t you look at your own preconceptions in a mirror.
The other poster's comments here were quoting a famous tv cartoon....I must be missing something... *scratching my head*
I wonder if our hill treader misses his dad sorely, or has regrets, unfinished business, concerning said parent. I speak figuratively, as the elder freeper account, not literally. I also want to make it clear I am not making any “gay” suggestion... God perish the idea. I’d assume that common sense would have sufficed to understand that. I guess not.
Yep, the infamous Looney Tune, Foghorn Leghorn. The giant rooster who kept on thwarting the diminutive Henery Hawk’s attempt to make a chicken dinner out of him. Foghorn always called Henery “son.” Even when Henery outwitted him. There were other characters involved, like a big dumb bulldog.
My last response to to your sorry ***. Fellow Freepers are sure to see your moral deficiencies as I surely do.
I thought it was funny....I got the joke immediately. I don’t get why the other poster was upset. Just don’t see it. I guess the guy never watched cartoons. Foghorn is an old one! (not making any old jokes here.....just so that’s clear.....son! heh)
Look up “projection,” buddy. Your violent post was rightly deleted. There is no flood of opprobrium upon me as would happen if I were so awful as you are imagining. You appear to be headed to a bitter old age. I hope your father did not beat you cruelly.
I wish. Got plenty of pleasant conservative neighbors, but one a-hole lib neighbor right next door. His daughter is on welfare supporting two half-black babies, all she does is drink and smoke all day and play loud music. Weeds for a yard front and back, run-down home. The only house on the block that cops get called out to. Guess I'm lucky, just one on the block. Both me and the neighbor on the other side of them have guns and let them know, keeps them from bothering us directly.
I doubt he ever had his chimney checked or cleaned in the thirty years he's been here. When I moved in over twenty-five years ago the first thing I did is to call a chimney sweep to inspect the fireplaces. He found problems that could have burned the house down. Most people around here ignore their chimneys, at their own peril. My bad neighbor burns so much stinky crap I'm hoping his place burns down; I'm not warning him about creosote build-up.
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