Posted on 04/09/2023 9:41:07 AM PDT by Twotone
The Boston City Council has adopted a new state building code to disincentivize fossil fuel usage in new construction and large-scale renovation projects, the latest locality to take aim at natural gas appliances.
The “Municipal Opt-in Specialized Stretch Energy Code,” which the city referred to as a “transformative green update,” passed 8-4 on Wednesday and will now be sent to Mayor Michelle Wu’s desk for her expected signature.
The code, as noted by Boston Globe, amounts to a near outlawing of new fossil fuel-operated appliances like gas stoves and drying machines. It will impose costly, climate-friendly requirements on developers who opt for fossil fuel connections in buildings, requiting they meet stringent energy efficiency standards. The code will also force developers using gas and oil to build, to pay more out of pocket for additional electrical wiring inside buildings so that they can easily transition to green electricity in the future.
Wu, a Democrat, has bragged that her administration is committed to a “Green New Deal for Boston.”
Ignoring the price burden on developers, Wu said that a green energy approach “lowers operating costs, and reduces the energy costs burden for residents” at a press conference in March.
Democrats around the country have voiced support for some form of a green transition or another. Back in 2019, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y., touted her sweeping Green New Deal proposal that one study estimated would cost $93 trillion, or $600,000 per household.
But the congresswoman is not the only official in her state to lean heavily into the green agenda. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed legislation in January that would ban new fossil fuel infrastructure such as gas lines for furnaces and stoves in buildings over the next several years, a measure already enacted by then New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio more than a year earlier.
San Fransisco is another city to have followed New York's lead, issuing its own ban on natural gas in new buildings. In California alone, more than 70 cities have either mandating or moving to mandate new buildings to be all-electric.
In response to this trend, states like Texas, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia and others have responded by prohibiting their cities from mirroring such drastic measures.
Will restaurants be exempted from this ban on gas stoves? I can't imagine that they are on board with this stuff.
So! America! How do you like Dung Beetles working for the government telling you how you are going to live your life? It’s their way or the highway. Pretty neat huh? You wake up in the morning and your day is completely laid out for you. All you have to do is shift into Full Zombie Mode.
Gotta get rid of anything that works and replace it with anything that doesn’t if we want to reach our deadline of exterminating 90% of Earth’s population by 2030.
All electric. What could go wrong? I have noticed that the electric poles in our town have a handle to disconnect the electric on a circuit of homes in a neighborhood. What could go wrong?
What difference, at this point, would that make?
IF I were an investor——
SUCH building would be OFF my list.
Insane, inasmuch as the New England grid is already on the verge of collapse every time there’s a stretch of cold weather. I hate seeing my old home town committing suicide like this. But it’s not the place it was in my childhood. Real Bostonians have been forced into diaspora by the flood of “intellectuals” from everywhere that were attracted by the colleges and universities. OK, so be it. Let ‘em stew in their own juice.
I read it as ‘gay appliances’ because that word is on the news so much
So glad I got out of that cesspool when I did. Left behind a nice gas cook top.
These turd-rollers are on a roll.
They ought to be rolled right out to sea....never to return.
We are now living in a clown world.
So will any new restaurants be built in Boston?
We should get together later and bitch about accents in movies.
Wow. Congrats. You are the first poster.
<>I didn’t read the article. <>
Try reading it.
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