Posted on 09/06/2019 11:02:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Seattle Times reports that Seattle's city council is considering legislation which would ban all new homes and buildings within city limits from using natural gas, and mandating that these edifices must use electric heating and cooking.
Councilmember Mike OBrien will likely introduce the legislation next week. If passed, it is expected that the regulations will go in effect next summer.
"We know that some people rely on natural gas at home and on the natural-gas industry for jobs, so we want to be thoughtful about how we transition," O'Brien said. "But in the meantime, lets not continue to make the problem worse."
Peggi Lewis Fu, executive director of the NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Development Associations Washington state chapter, slammed the potential proposal.
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Where do they think their power comes from? Solar Panels in Seattle? Where it rains 75% of the time?
Where do they think electricity comes from?
Following in the footsteps of the numnuts in Bezerkley. Maybe people should go back to coal or wood burning stoves.
All this window dressing might be laughable except that it raises the cost of construction in cities where there is a massive shortage of affordable housing.
That’s okay, more for us back east at cheaper prices!.................
Those were outlawed a few years back.................
This would be asinine.
Following in the footsteps of the numnuts in Bezerkley. Maybe people should go back to coal or wood burning stoves.
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actually a number of west coast cities have banned wood burning heat
This would be asinine.
This is normal in liberals’ minds..............
See who and how many Wash State Dems and their families own stock in Fijitsu General.
This is completely bonkers. Natural gas is the most efficient, reliable and cheap and therefor - most environmentally friendly energy source there is.
All you need is dung, all you need is dung,
All you need is dung, dung...
Dung is all you need, dung is all you need.
Seattle would be far better off if they BANNED LIBERALS, not natural gas. Fools.
The cleanest power source on earth along with hydro and maybe wind. Idiots. Bloody stupid idiots.
Liberalism is a SEVERE mental disorder.
Just increased the cost of older homes.
The USA has enough Natural Gas to last a millennium but a shortage of electricity. And these morons want to increase the load on the electric grid.
I would NEVER buy an all electric home. When the power goes out, you got nothing. They want us to go back to the Stone Age. But at least caves had climate control. In the winter, the further back you go, the warmer it gets. In the summer, the further back you go, the cooler it gets.
Thats emission free heating and cooling.
Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones.
Yeah, I recommend they go back to burning wood.
Rainbows and unicorn farts.
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