No sense focusing on the crime rate.
May the next wicked big winter storm find these guys in the newest of the new building.
What is “fossil fuel”?
Go for it, Boston but don’t ask the rest of us to bail you out.
“Key provisions” i.e. us morons in flyover country get to pay for Boston’s solar panels and look at windmills all over the countryside.
BRILLIANT IDEA!! And in about a year or two they will want heating/cooling system installed. Cost will be 10X the initial cost during construction.
Soooooo glad I’m out of there. Couldn’t stand the intolerance towards the non-woke.
“Boston is seeking to ban fossil fuels from new building projects . . .”
Must admit, I don’t understand what I am reading.
Are they saying that steel and concrete and glass products manufactured and transported by fossil fuels can’t be used in construction projects?
Or, does it mean something else; perhaps some little baby step?
I wonder what the figure is for reducing fossil fuel usage in the US if we did just one thing. REMOVE ALL IMMIGRANT WHO ARE NOT WORKING OR CAME HERE ILLEGALY. Their children can stay here, we will house them in orphanages, or they can go home.
Take away all visas, and give the jobs to American citizens. Tech companies love these guys, but SEND THEM PACKING.
There, the roads are free from jams, the power grid is less strained, and maybe people can afford to rent and purchase once more.
The best and biggest benefit would be, Blackrock and Vanguard would LOSE THEIR SHIRTS.
Where do they think their electricity comes from? Solar is never going amount to much in New England, wind is unreliable, they don’t have geothermal, they hate nukes. They do import some of their power from Quebec hydro, but not all of it (and the Quebec hydroelectric projects aren’t exactly environmentally benign).
So i assume the alternative for space heating will be heat pumps and in an urban environment they will mostly be air source heat pumps. Those quit extracting heat out of the air when ambient temperature reaches about 20 degrees. Below that the back-up resistance heating coil kicks in. Wait til they get their first electric bill in the wintertime.
” Boston is seeking to ban fossil fuels from new building projects and major renovations, Mayor Michelle Wu announced Tuesday.”
How do they plan to bring materials into Boston for new construction? Haven’t seen any electric powered cement trucks recently.
Go for it. States should certainly be the laboratories to shape both good and bad ideas.
Good, communist Massachusetts citizens deserve what they voted for.
And every Petroleum company in America should jump on board and help them through this transition by Immediately STOPPING All sales and deliveries of petroleum products to the entire State.
You would think rational people of character would be open to, would want to debate radical ideas like this before impacting peoples lives with them, but they’re not rational and of character. Climate disillusion is their god. A way to pretend they are adding value to the world while gaining some sick ego trip around all the nonsense and waste. If they weren’t doing this, what else would they be doing? Tackling tough, non imaginary things? Too hard.
Fine by me. Let ‘em freeze. They are not paying attention to what is happening in Europe. The northeast USA has left little sunshine compared to AZ, CA, TX. Wind is iffy too. Nukes are out of the question.
Instead of a building directly using fossil fuels, for example, heating via natural gas furnaces, instead they use the same fuels indirectly via the electrical grid.
From everything I read, if new and renovated buildings went 100% electric that might be too much for New England’s electric grid to handle.
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