Posted on 05/26/2014 7:12:31 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The war on climate change may soon be moving inside the kitchen.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy is set to unveil on Tuesday six federal grants to universities to fund research on clean cookstove technology.
The announcement will put the EPA’s resources squarely behind a United Nations’ quest for cleaner burning stoves and an end to deadly cooking pollution.
“This research will help to improve air quality, protect public health and slow climate change,” the EPA said in explaining why the agency chief will preside over the announcement on Tuesday.
To make the case for why these grants are so important, EPA noted the World Health Organization estimates that exposure to smoke from traditional cookstoves and open pit fires leads to 4.3 million premature deaths each year.
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This is all part of the *feel good about myself* ideology. The wealthy young slackers who have no impetus for a real career can set up NGOs and pay people to manufacture the *sustainable* stoves they approve, then use the grant and donation money to 1) give themselves paid administrative positions; 2)finance trips to 3rd world locations to burnish their resumes; 3)finance 6 months at a time living somewhere *exotic* to also increase their organizing credentials, while forming relationships with 3rd world leaders. If the NGO is also considered a *charity*, they can usually get a nice tax deduction, as well.
They become *experts*, publish, lecture and go on to other NGO positions and sometimes then run for political office, all without ever working in the private sector.
These are the people born and bred to rule the world. Everyone else is just a stick figure populating the background and useful only in so far as they create a milieu for the elite.
I believe most of your scenario is already happening. I know a couple who had a small rural restaurant and were forced to sell it when the mandated environmental upgrades became just too expensive. If the owners don’t upgrade to EPA standards, they can’t find insurance. Also, they run the risk of failing an OSHA inspection if they have employees.
This is done through grants to US-based NGOs. See post #61.
I guess the UN is going to go after those “camel dung-fired stoves” in the Arab world. while the EPA goes after everyone’s natural gas stoves here. Natural gas cars good, natural gas cooking stoves bad! Last time I looked, we get electricity from a natural gas-fired generating plant.
You’re on to something. Our present stoves will be grandfathered. We will not be able to buy any new stove that doesn’t meet EPA regs. Normally, kitchen appliances stay in a home when it is sold. That will be outlawed, unless it is new and approved.
It’s probably coming to that, unless we get our country back.
Instead of taking a sledgehammer to the new black electric stove left here when we bought our home, I gave it to a young family whose stove died. We still have the fridge. It is too expensive to replace. What kind of idiot buys black appliances!? They always look dusty and stick out like a sore thumb. Same goes for chrome. Ugh!
I installed a gas stove. No loaf of bread, roast, cookies... all foods- cooked on an electric stove is worth consuming. Dries foods out, hard to gently cook some foods, costlier than natural gas, worthless when pressure- and water-bath canning, etc. The only downer is gas stoves now use a stupid starter thing in the oven that must use electricity, otherwise, one can hand-light the burners. I purposely got a stove withou a computer/digital oven. I was lied to by Sears, who insisted I could hand-light the stove if the power went out. I miss my old Monkeywards gas stove....
I would rather cook over an open pit than ever use an electric stove EVER again.
If my husband did not insist on a microwave, that would never be sitting there, taking up space.
Too pop-up heavy to bother with.
There goes campfires......
I’ll give up my woodburning (insert)stove when Mother Nature gives up her wildfires and volcanoes..
Regulate THAT, you @##$% feds!!!!
replace um with electric stoves..
problem solved ;)
then your “something” is the cause. not the electric stove..
Never mind that smoke belching from the power plant... your electric stove is still zero emissions ;)
I am more furious about this woodstove thing than anything else at the moment. The states better step up and tell the EPA to pack sand. At least GA.
We use a lot of woodstoves in GA and Mr. GG2 and I are getting ready to buy one or two. I’m thinking of going ahead and getting them and stick them in the garage.
The EPA was begun with an Executive Order, and could very easily be taken out with one.
Yes so true and the only person who ever pledge to shut it down was Newt.
Our great summertime pastime of outdoor bar-b-q-ing is in danger from the Obama zombies. Maybe S’More’s too!
Wow, that’s a lot of people having freak stove accidents.
How does that happen? If you were standing over your stove stirring a pot of spaghetti sauce, you slip and fall and the wooden spoon you had in your hand somehow hits first and then drives into the brain through the eye? That’s a lot of unlucky people.
As my dad said: An expert is this - an ex is a HAS been and a pert is a drip, so an expert is a has been drip. :-)
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