San Fran Bans Natural Gas Furnaces, Water Heaters to cut pollution. Ban starts in 2027 and will be implemented over eight years.

PJ Media ^ | 03/17/2023 | Catherine Salgado

[SeekAndFind]

San Francisco Bay Area regulators voted March 15 to eliminate the sale and installation of natural gas-powered furnaces and water heaters, supposedly to cut pollution. The ban starts in 2027 and will be implemented over eight years.

It seems strangely fitting that this should’ve happened on the Ides of March; San Fran authorities seem to love to stab their citizens in the back with idiotic woke policies. Natural gas is a relatively clean power source and it is also reliable, unlike “green” energy. But why let reality interfere with ideology?

Breitbart reported that the ban does not affect gas stoves, which are currently under fire from the Biden administration. Not only will the sale and installation of natural gas water heaters and furnaces be phased out, but already-installed furnaces and heaters will not be allowed to be replaced when they stop working. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is supposedly targeting air pollution from nitrogen oxides.

Breitbart added, “Democrats oppose natural gas, even though its adoption has allowed the U.S. to produce fewer carbon dioxide emissions while growing its economy, because it is still a fossil fuel and is often extracted through fracking.”

Ironically, however, “green” energy sources are often worse for the environment than natural gas. Windmills came under fire last year for the number of birds they’ve killed. Windmills or wind turbines were estimated to kill hundreds of thousands of birds yearly just in the US, based on 2013 and 2014 studies, and in recent months offshore wind development seems to be killing whales. Solar panels also kill thousands of birds—these “climate-friendly” energy sources are certainly not friendly to wildlife. Solar panel production is also tied to toxic pollution;

[SeekAndFind]

In fact, As of 2018, solar panels (which are difficult to recycle) were estimated to create 300 times more toxic waste than power plants create high-level nuclear waste.

[bray]

Communists are really good at solving imaginary problems like Weather Change, real problems not so much.

[usual suspect]

So, making work and jobs for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers?

[Bob434]

I think ny is going to as well in 2027- right before the gov terms are up. The problem is that any new gov in those states will keep the naw Inplace, as they are hop,essay liberal here.

[G Larry]

GOV'T CONTROL!!!

Electricity they can cut off, NG is more difficult as it is powered by NG generators.

[allendale]

The lunatics are deconstructing San Francisco. Decent ,rational people are moving out. A 7.9 earthquake would be a merciful coup de grace.

[bobbo666]

This is good.

The only replacement, assuming that the BoardofSillies will think about replacement, is lectricty. And, they will allow only the bare min of plants (no, panels and fans are useless) on the peninsula to support the grid. So, they will have to import the power — which will crash during the first storm.

Then, they will all die since there will be no heat, no light, and no water.

Which is good.

[Ge0ffrey]

Flee San Francisco. Run for your lives.

[dfwgator]

China will scoop up the abandoned properties for pennies on the dollars and build a ChiCom colony.

[Chgogal]

This is so outrageously stupid and uncalled for.

[cyclotic]

When America banned real toilets, 5 gallon flush toilet sales skyrocket in Canada where Americans brought their own back home. Americans will buy them outside SF

[blackdog]

Crumbling infrastructure of the gas lines. It’s cheaper to abandon gas and abandon the aged broken pipes under the streets. In some cities the leaking losses in the ground are around 26%.

[thegagline]

supposedly to cut pollution

Of course needles, urine, and feces in the street are not only acceptable but encouraged.

[wardaddy]

Here in Tennessee the conservative state legislature is usurping troublesome activist municipal authority where it can

Of course in California not gonna happen

[T.B. Yoits]

Crumbling infrastructure of the gas lines. It’s cheaper to abandon gas and abandon the aged broken pipes under the streets. In some cities the leaking losses in the ground are around 26%.

Bingo... and the politicians dare not speak that truth because it was severely impact the municipal bond rating which would accelerate these cities current decline into Third World status.

These places were not built with a focus on ongoing maintenance or replacement. That was somebody else's problem at some future date. It's now all coming due.

In some cities, there are still wooden water lines from two centuries ago:
https://www.hiddenhydrology.org/the-water-in-the-wood/

[oldasrocks]

IF they wanted to do something real they would boycott china who produces 90% of world pollution.

[bray]

They are doing something real, destroying America.

[moovova]

I’m guessing a permit is normally pulled there, for any new HVAC systems installed. Who am I fooling...a permit is probably needed in SF to swap out a light bulb. Anyway, under-the-table installations would have to occur for new gas heaters because SF wouldn’t issue a permit. That would turn into a real mess.

[butlerweave]

San Francisco Bay Area the land of the cold and unwashed

[gibsonguy]

Interesting that this is just SF. I guess they figured that is the one place the sheep and the deluded won’t resist.