EPA should start with the Bum Outlaw`s ` Fireplace
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?
This is perfect government reasoning .
Ban wood stoves to eliminate smoke and the reason to cut fire wood .
Trees grow in the forest. Trees die in the forest. Trees fall down in the forest.
Forest catches fire . The forest smokes.
Not only that, forest fires are a lot harder to put out when they’re full of dead wood.
Good luck with that up in the mountains where everyone has a woodstove.
Since the cash for klunkers worked out so well.
SS&SU
But then you would be agreeing with the EPAAAAAA!!!!!EWWWWWWWW!!!!
These people are just begging for it!
“A wood burning stove is quite easy to build, basically just a fireplace with a heat-shielded blower, quite easy to flip the bird at the EPA and just build your own...”
A suppressor is also easy to build. Make one and see what happens to you.
That tree has a certain amount of CO2. It releases slow or it releases fast. Nonetheless, you can’t exceed the value that’s in it when it dies.
The approved stove doesn’t change that equation, and the approved stove actually isn’t as usable. It requires a standard water content that can be achieved only with thoroughly dried and seasoned wood. That standard of wood is an unnecessary burden on those who burn wood. Thoroughly dried wood burns hotter and with less smoke, but the time (or money) required to have it is counter-productive for those who work for a living.
EPA should start with the Bum Outlaw`s ` Fireplace
Wow, a whole THREE MICROGRAMS!..........that’ll show ‘em!...............
Most likely nothing...as long as your not stupid enough to go marching around town with it or showing it off on your facebook page, contrary to what some seem to think the government isn't the Psychic Friends Network....
It’s time to out these EPA tyrants — names, home addresses, telephone numbers. They think they are immune from retribution. It’s time to prove them wrong.
A more efficient stove should be a market choice, of course.
A more efficient stove is a good idea,
but, as I say to my libinlaw to her great chagrine -
just because it’s a good idea doesn’t mean the government has a right to make us do it.
'How do we find him'?
"He's probably the only black man riding a motorcycle in North Dakota".
Great points... I have a masonry heater in my house, and I toss in all sorts of stuff that probably wouldn’t burn well in an “approved” stove. It burns hot, and it burns down to nothing but fine white ash.
3 micrograms....3 millionths of a gram is the size of a particle of playbox sand. One millionth is the size of a particle of powdered baking powder.
The EPA is closing down good businesses and injuring the rural middle class and poor over a grain of sand.
. This will clean that smoke right up!!! And it's EPA approved!!!
A law that prevents you from selling something that you own, is a law that effectively confiscates the item.
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