Alaska Ping!
Posted on 12/30/2016 5:25:04 PM PST by Twotone
In Jack London’s famous short story, “To Build A Fire,” a man freezes to death because he underestimates the cold in America’s far north and cannot build a proper fire. The unnamed man—a chechaquo, what Alaska natives call newcomers—is accompanied by a wolf-dog that knows the danger of the cold and is wholly indifferent to the fate of the man. “This man did not know cold. Possibly, all the generations of his ancestry had been ignorant of cold, of real cold, of cold 107 degrees below freezing point. But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge.”
If only the bureaucrats in Washington DC knew what the wolf-dog knew. But alas, now comes the federal government to tell the inhabitants of Alaska’s interior that, really, they should not be building fires to keep themselves warm during the winter. The New York Times reports the Environmental Protection Agency could soon declare the Alaskan cities of Fairbanks and North Pole, which have a combined population of about 100,000, in “serious” noncompliance of the Clean Air Act early next year.
Like most people in Alaska, the residents of those frozen cities are burning wood to keep themselves warm this winter. Smoke from wood-burning stoves increases small-particle pollution, which settles in low-lying areas and can be breathed in. The EPA thinks this is a big problem. Eight years ago, the agency ruled that wide swaths of the most densely populated parts of the region were in “non-attainment” of federal air quality standards.
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The Alaskans should openly give th Digital Salute to the EPA.
Alaska Ping!
I think Trump, before he leaves the podium after his swearing-in, should sign an executive order rescinding every single barkie executive order.
We should send the EPA to Desolation Point and let them live without anything to burn to keep warm.
The Lake Tahoe region’s new rule:
New fireplaces are GAS ONLY. If you have a pre-ban fireplace from an older home and alter that fireplace in any way, it becomes a POST-ban fireplace and as such can no longer burn wood IN ANY WAY.
Got a tiny problem on your wood-burning fireplace? You better think twice about repairing it —the rules are kept opaque deliberately, they WANT you to worry about it becoming “POST-ban”.
Yup, no more roaring Christmas fire.
Alaskans should keep burning wood and the EPA should be consigned to the fires of hell.
Out of the UN and shut down the EPA.
Think not only of the money saved but also the restoration of liberty taken away by these clowns.
Alaskans should burn all the wood they want, and call the EPA and tell them.
What are they gonna do in 20 days?
F((( the EPA. Seriously. F((( them.
I wonder if they should all be fired one at a time or en masse. En masse would be more efficient but it sure would be fun to call each one of those SOBs into an office and fire them individually. NEXT! NEXT! NEXT! So many people to be fired.
“F((( the EPA. Seriously. F((( them.”
They are too ugly for that.
Use them for target practice
Do it anyway.
See, Nixon tried to be nice with the Left by creating the EPA and the Left still hated his guts. See how "compromising, bipartisanship, reaching across the aisle" get Republicans?
My woodstove is a 1987 Shenandoah.
Just a firebrick-lined heavy steel box. Just tossed 3 more chuncks of white oak in there before I sat back down and saw this article.
And I’d guess these people wouldn’t much like the tens of thousands of unwanted trees I cut each year, pile in huge, 2-story-house sized piles and light up.
Best part is...local governments pay me damn good money to do it
(((The Alaskans should openly give th Digital Salute to the EPA.))) then send them the next dead frozen body of someone that fell asleep with out a fire to keep them warm....it happens every year up there.
You made a small error.
That should be in bold, like this:
F((( the EPA. Seriously. F((( them!
Utter insanity. The EPA wants them to stop burning wood and freeze to death.
And don’t even think of burning coal, gas or oil.
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