Posted on 11/23/2007 6:18:58 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
*SMIRK*
A ‘Nanny State Good Morning’ to YOU! :)
Damn nanny staters wanting more control
BBQ grills are next.
“or refuse to “grandfather in” older units if they wish. “
I have a hard time understanding this. I thought that “grandfathering in” was a legal precept. How is it legal to “ refuse to “grandfather in” older units if they wish. “
I see a lot of these outside wood burner units in rural Missouri. They are very smoky...
Wood is one of the dirtiest forms of heating and one of the worst for the environment. Some years ago, even Andy Rooney noticed that if everyone used wood heat, soon Vermont would look like Saudi Arabia.
The libertarian in me repels at regulation, but imagining that wood heat is environmentally friendly is self-delusion of the worst kind.
remember these are politicians and possibly liberals pols, it does not need to make sense. Just needs to feel good
Does boiled wood taste as awful as boiled peanuts?
They are around here in PA also. But you don’t wait until several people spend $5000 each and then decide you don’t like it. Make them illegal from this point on and make existing users put a higher pipe on the smokestack (the smoke will still come back down on some days).
I have seen pictures of the area I now live from the early 1900’s and there is nary a tree to be seen, all pasture. Now the same area is so thickly wooded you need a compass to navigate. Actually there is more forest now than there has ever been since the area was settled.
In the late 70s/ early 80s, air-tight woodburning stoves became very popular in the area I lived, largely in response to high oil and electricity prices. For a while it seemed like practically everyone had one. I remember walking outside at night in the winter, when temperature inversions were quite common, and you could feel the wood smoke immediately begin to irritate your lungs and throat. People think tobacco smoke is bad, but it’s got nothing on wood smoke. I’m also uncertain about the economics of it if you don’t have ready access to a good supply of cheap firewood.
slow wood cooking stove are junk, try liveing next to five of them on a still winter day .
It settle in (smoke) for most have no chimmy and if you had one next to you ,,you would hate it i know i;m in the middle of a crap load of them ... They do need a law that the chimmies are much taller to try to solve the problem
Then I remembered the neighbor with the woodstove. A cheap Yankee, he learned he could save money on trash collection by burning his rubbish in it. PVC bottles made clouds of yellowish grey heavier than air smoke that contained phosgene.
He stopped doing it, before I could leave him some Special Firewood. :-)
So, like everything else, it depends. If someone is burning CCA treated lumber, etc., they need to be stopped immediately.
I did have friends, however, who had a wood-fired baseboard furnace. They saved a lot of money, and no neighbors minded the rustic smell at all. There was one funny thing however regarding low stack temperatures...I was there once, and there were funny snowflake-like things that were falling in the yard, and a roaring sound. I ran outdoors to see a blue flame coming from the chimney that looked a lot like an upside-down Shuttle Launch. Creosote chimney fire.
You are on to something. Your right to fill the air will smoke and soot ends at the tip of my nose.
I remember the same thing in Colorado. That smoke was horrible. It does make going outside unbearable.
Don’t tell the people of Newfoundland that! They cut wood all summer for burning in the winter.
17 posts and no one has gotten to the root of all this and put the blame where it belongs, at the feet of the enviro-nazis.
If the enviro-nazis hadn’t prevented the drilling of domestic oil, all this wouldn’t be occurring.
That was enough incentive for us to convert it to gas and avoid the special fireplace tax.
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