....Oh, look! This one has a Norwegian prayer on the front! I bet that really pisses off obongo and his friend the toilet paper Holder.
http://jotul.com/us/products/stoves/jotul-f-118-cb-black-bear
Posted on 02/19/2014 12:43:09 PM PST by xzins
Our ever so helpful government has decided that your wood burning stove is now a danger to the world. In another attempt to outlaw the off grid lifestyle, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the same agency that was recently caught using drones to spy on Americans, is now going after home owners who use Wood Burning Stoves to heat their homes.
Shortly after the re-election of President Obama, the agency announced new radical environmental regulations that threaten to effect people who live off the grid. The EPA’s new environmental regulations reduce the amount of airborne fine-particle matter from 15 micrograms to 12 micrograms per cubic meter of air.
This means that most wood burning stoves would now fall into a class that would deemed unacceptable under these new draconian measures. The EPA has even launched a nifty new website called burn wise to try to sway public opinion.
On their site, while trying to convince people to get rid of their old stoves and buy the new EPA-certified stoves, they state that these older stove must be scraped and cannot be resold.
From the EPA Site:
The local air pollution agency says I can’t sell my old wood stove to help pay for an EPA-certified wood stove. Why is that? Replacing an older stove with a cleaner-burning stove will not improve air quality if the older stove is reused somewhere else. For this reason, wood stove change out programs usually require older stoves to be destroyed and recycled as scrap metal, or rendered inoperable.
Let’s hope this doesn’t fall under the jurisdiction of the newly created Department of Homeland Security Environmental Justice Units? The next thing you know we might all be getting a knock at the door….. Your Neighbor reported that you might be burning some wood, do you mind if we take a look around?
Me too.
Thrice.
The law where I live says you CANNOT sell your house with a non EPA approved stove in it. You cannot sell the stove. If the stoves left in the residence then it must be totally disabled.....like filled up with concrete.
Yhey have ways of making you comply.
Heat your home with a rocket stove and use 80-90% less wood, according to this site. Almost no smoke to give you away... and you can build it yourself.
This is not a problem. I don’t see anywhere where an open fire around under a pot of tar is illegal.
John F’n Kerry (he was in Vietnam) says that “climate change” is the greatest WMD threat in the world.
So a drone strike on your wood smoke signature may be in order to make the world safer from WMDs.
But to force out of service those stoves which met previous EPA rules will not survive a court challenge IMHO.
This is the real point the libtards miss. We cannot live without CO2. No CO2, no plants. No plants, no oxygen. No oxygen, no people.
I suppose the Soros Administration’s buddies from Solyndra are now making wood stoves.
Two wrongs don’t make a right...but three do.
Does this include fireplaces as well?
Do we want the urbanites relocating to our peaceful rural areas?
I get your drift, But I don’t want any more of them here. We already have enough.
Sounds like a damn good reason to build or buy a wood-gasifier.
Low tech, practically no emissions, blue flame, you can fuel and run an engine with it.
He has hundreds of videos, on how to do all kinds of things. I wish he was my neighbor.
I built my own wood burning stove with my trusty welder, and over the years it has been modified a few times to improve airflow, and to accommodate cooking. Screw the EPA.
I see a lot of “Ruby Ridges” in our future.
Re-location to urban areas will deal with those scoff-laws...
The EPA had better outlaw volcanic eruptions.
One volcano spews more ash, particulates, etc, than a whole decade of wood stoves.
Like guns, wood stoves are arguably easy to build, but most people won’t and have a right to buy well built ones at fair market cost; banning sale is practical prohibition. The Left has learned complete bans aren’t worth it, but that eliminating 95+% is sufficient for their goals and far easier to achieve.
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