Posted on 02/03/2014 4:33:29 PM PST by dynachrome
The impacts of EPAs ruling will affect many families. According to the U.S. Census Bureaus 2011 survey statistics, 2.4 million American housing units (12 percent of all homes) burned wood as their primary heating fuel, compared with 7 percent that depended upon fuel oil.
Local governments in some states have gone even further than EPA, not only banning the sale of noncompliant stoves, but even their use as fireplaces. As a result, owners face fines for infractions. Puget Sound, Washington is one such location. Montréal, Canada proposes to eliminate all fireplaces within its city limits.
Only weeks after EPA enacted its new stove rules, attorneys general of seven states sued the agency to crack down on wood-burning water heaters as well. The lawsuit was filed by Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont, all predominately Democrat states. Claiming that EPAs new regulations didnt go far enough to decrease particle pollution levels, the plaintiffs cited agency estimates that outdoor wood boilers will produce more than 20 percent of wood-burning emissions by 2017. A related suit was filed by the environmental group Earth Justice.
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Is that photo from Boston? Is that dude in the armored vehicle pointing a gun?
They aren’t on duty 24 hours each and every day. If they are part of a confiscation team, they will make fine targets when they’re relaxing after a hard day of rounding up the citizen’s means of self defense.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
If I hear people are coming to take my woodstove, I’ll just light a fire in it. Let’s see if they have asbestos fingers.
Wow.
Thanks. Can’t figure out why he’d be pointing either one - camera or gun.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Good link. I am a big fan of what Paul Wheaton, and Ernie & Erica are doing with Rocket Mass Heaters.
0% of rural Penna heats with wood, wood pellets or coal. This won’t go well around here.
“Did you really think we want those laws observed? said Dr. Ferris. We want them to be broken. Youd better get it straight that its not a bunch of boy scouts youre up against... Were after power and we mean it... Theres no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there arent enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? Whats there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers and then you cash in on guilt. Now thats the system, Mr. Reardon, thats the game, and once you understand it, youll be much easier to deal with. (Atlas Shrugged 1957)
Thanks for the ping!
A drunken Government who thinks it’s THEIR position to DECIDE for YOU.
I have. Now you have to pick a side. Your picture postd to me is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications one of the enemedia. If you know how logging works, it means that they can associate my IP with that picture when the thread reloads and I reply (except the way I just replied). If you don't realize that, then you are just a little naive. That's ok though, nobody's perfect.
As for the war, you have to pick your battles. If/when I go down it won't be as a right wing gun nut (which I am) but as an innocent wood stove owner persecuted by the overweening state. Hopefully thousands more like me would be able to stop the slide into totalitarianism. But maybe I am naive too.
I do the opposite. When it gets bitter I turn on the propane, but that’s expensive so I only use it to take the bitter edge off.
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2009-0734
Being as this is America, the home of the free, I
would suspect that rural folks are just going to
go on heating themselves however they can.
Have you ever heard of ‘boiling the frog slowly’? This is how it starts and it will ultimately end with a complete ban.
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