Posted on 10/21/2015 10:05:25 PM PDT by Lonely Bull
SAN FRANCISCO -- Wood-burning heaters -- including modern pollution-fighting wood stoves -- will not be permitted in new homes built in the Bay Area starting next fall, as part of a first-in-the-nation ban approved by air quality regulators Wednesday.
The new rules, approved unanimously by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, will also require every seller of an existing home with a wood-burning fireplace to give buyers a disclosure statement warning of the health risks of wood smoke.
Even wood stoves certified by the federal Environmental Protection Agency as low emission would not be allowed in new homes whose construction begins after Nov. 1, 2016, in the seven Bay Area counties, plus southern parts of Sonoma and Solano counties.
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You could buy a plantation with the worth of your homes and move your entire extended family.
i think its time...time to drag that POS who sponsored that piece of legislation to bleed people 's wallets into the streets, load his his cronies and donors wallets full of cash, and beat him to a pulp after you level his house and eveything in it. No more of this MFBS. No more.
If the voters of Washington State reelect Jay Inslee, who is a nut job on CO2 and automobiles, they will prove to be total dupes. Washington State had one of the worst fire season last summer it ever had. More CO2 poured into the atmosphere from these fires than all of the cars in the state for one year. I suppose California’s fires put out more CO2 then all of the cars in the nation. And these sissy pants Bay Area politicos think they are going to make a difference getting rid of wood stoves? They have got these stoves so efficient that they hardly put out any offensive smoke.
Head line should be, “Democrat’s ban backup heating devices for next regional disaster”
While this restriction on liberty is not exclusively related to population density in the San Francisco area, it is true to say that it could not or would not have occurred absent such population density. In addition to the inevitable shrinkage of liberty with density, we have the undeniable nuttiness of the San Francisco area and the clinically definable obsession with the environment.
This law, incidentally, will outlaw rocket stoves which seemed to offer an enormous amount of heat from wood with extraordinarily low amounts of particulate or gas emissions. Whatever advantages the rocket stove offers the environment are to be swept away with his mania born on a wave of population growth.
I would think the hippies there would be all for consuming organic material in a series of small fires.
Great to have when the power goes out to.
a free man that can neither feed himself by his own hand or keep warm by his own hand, is a cold, hungry slave
Nope. No SEEE-ment pond is worth it.
Let’s Go Mets!
Regards,
They can’t tax wood heat or control it. I think this is the reason they do this stuff. It is all about control.
...whining like some greenie-weenie about the smell and smoke and trees.
I’ve been to the Seattle area numerous times. In fact, I’ll be there for a couple of weeks shortly.
Do not kid yourself. The whole area is infested with Leftist environmentalists as seriously deranged as any Bay Area tree-hugger.
It’s only a matter of time before those same laws show up in Washington.
Good luck. I wish there was a way out for you. I love it up there, except for the idiots...
I saw the light in 1994 and emigrated to New Hampshire
Now, happily retired here. There is nothing I left in Kalifornicatia that I need to go back to pick up!
Servicing the evil wood pellet stove today. Have to get ready to feed the trees their CO2.
Shouldn’t wee all Get behind this measure and support it whole heartedly? I think so. So much that I believe to confirm our commitment to “Saving the Planet” we need to make it a FELONY, Punishable by 10 years in PRISON for ANY person that can be classified as a “Public Employee” to Use ANY TYPE of Heating Device that BURNS Vegetation or Organic Matter of any kind.
Show me this Law, put your money where your mouth is.
When morons breed.. And vote.
And let unelected idiots like CARB and “AQMDs” run awry..
And amuck.
Blame Indonesia.. Or Canada..
But leave us alone!!
There ya go.. Burn marijuana stalks.. Or better yet, pelletize it.. Bet they’d all be onboard then.
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