Posted on 02/03/2014 4:33:29 PM PST by dynachrome
The impacts of EPA’s ruling will affect many families. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2011 survey statistics, 2.4 million American housing units (12 percent of all homes) burned wood as their primary heating fuel, compared with 7 percent that depended upon fuel oil.
Local governments in some states have gone even further than EPA, not only banning the sale of noncompliant stoves, but even their use as fireplaces. As a result, owners face fines for infractions. Puget Sound, Washington is one such location. Montréal, Canada proposes to eliminate all fireplaces within its city limits.
Only weeks after EPA enacted its new stove rules, attorneys general of seven states sued the agency to crack down on wood-burning water heaters as well. The lawsuit was filed by Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont, all predominately Democrat states. Claiming that EPA’s new regulations didn’t go far enough to decrease particle pollution levels, the plaintiffs cited agency estimates that outdoor wood boilers will produce more than 20 percent of wood-burning emissions by 2017. A related suit was filed by the environmental group Earth Justice.
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If you hve a wood stove or a wood fired boiler for heat, in these states, you will be a criminal pretty soon.
While Obama sits in the White House with the heat cranked up to 80 degrees.
I never thought I would see such tyranny in this country.
When the “enforcement” folks show up they also have a handy way to dispose of their corpses.
Had Enough Yet ?
So, in Demworld, you don’t have any absolute right to life if living requires you to run your wood stove.
they bring this crap to idaho and it is on
So what about all those trendy wood-fired pizza ovens?
Guilty as charged.
Come and take it.
http://www.richsoil.com/rocket-stove-mass-heater.jsp
They claim a stealthy long burning very low pollution output rocket stove mass heater.
What? What? I read this 4 times already and it still hasn’t sunk in. BAN wood burning stoves? What? You mean wood burning stoves that have been around as long as this country has existed and beyond? WHAT?
Since they can’t tax wood for your heating...they will just make it harder for you do use it...
It’s all about having to be reliant on the government for everything then the b*stards have you!
Mel
Thats the idea, control
The Supreme Court has some real fireplaces, in conference rooms (and probably in the office suites of the justices, as well). When I toured the building, the fires were lit. Real wood too.
Ping a ling!
They can pry my 1927 Wards Bengal from my warm dead hands.
“trendy wood-fired pizza ovens”
Owned by liberals? Necessity of life, elgible for gov’t subsidy. Owned by conservatives? Evil businessmen, earth rapers, etc.
We have a Bill of Rights that theoretically protects us from abuses by the three coequal branches of government.
There is no equivalent bill of rights to protect you from the regulator. The “three coequal branches” have conspired to evade the constitutional limits and the regulator is their proxy. He does what they want doing, and they have complete deniability.
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