Has the government ever before said that it will force people owning old cars to get rid of those cars? Old houses to get rid of those houses?
But it now thinks it can force people owning a prior generation of wood stoves to get rid of those stoves?
Do not we own our own property anymore?
If govt can drive up the price of a new dimmer lightbulb to $10, I can’t wait to see what it will do to wood stoves
and of course then create new tax laws about wood stove credits
The EPA is not going to pay the cost of the new stoves.
Its a cost it simply passes on to Americans.
This is an example of Washington’s regulatory overreach that makes life more inconvenient and expensive for average folks.
There’s no great clamor for this new regulation in the country.
Gina and the EPA can kiss my (welding) rod. I’ll have any kind of wood stove I damn well please.
Kinda LOL! When “they” issue “air quality alerts” in our area they tell people they can’t use their wood burners to heat their homes. There’s alot of folks who only have wood burners as their source of heat so, do you think they’re gonna sit there and freeze? Uh, no. Do they have the money to retrofit? For a lot of them, no. Will they amend the obiecare medical monstrosity to include provisions for clean air/particulate matter emissions as health hazards?
Tell the govt. to go fk itself.
Wonder what the EPA thinks of fireplaces.
A 344 page rule is a lawyers wetdream come true.
Time to start decorating lampposts with these turds.
Oh ya, you better install in the next few months and if you can’t do ALL of the work yourself, you better check with your county first.
If you think you’re going to sneak one past your local building inspector, you better go check your homeowners insurance policy.
“Un, sorry, your installation was out of code and you ARE NOT COVERED!”
He has erected a multitude of new offices by a self-assumed power, & sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people & eat out their substance.
“The EPA has finalized a 344-page rule”
We need a law that says any government agency that wishes to hand down a regulation, that regulation must be submitted to congress, as a stand alone bill (no attaching it to any other legislation so it cant be snuck in) for a vote. It must pass both houses of congress. And if passed, has to be signed by the president (the president can also veto it if he chooses).
No more of this handing down arbitrary regulations that is automatically law without having been passed by congress.
Make sure that the new regs include a ban on emitting any odors or gasses from your dead body when it thaws out and starts to rot in the spring.
I guess I will have to slip over to Vinita OK and buy a truck load of nasty stinky COAL!
Franklin stoves are supposed to be pretty good.
“The EPA has finalized a 344-page rule to make wood stoves more environmentally friendly, meaning that millions of Americans will soon be forced to buy more expensive wood-fired stoves.”
Welcome to the world of CRONY CAPITALISM!
Smokeless Bar-B-Q pits are next......right after banning burning wood in you home fireplace.
The solution today is to install another layer of thermal insulation around the house, and in the attic.....
I read of a guy in Wisconsin that built a house with 9 inch insulation and in winter the heat from the kitchen gas stove and the water heater was sufficient to keep the house warm.
“But EPA claims the rule will save lives while only costing $45.7 million per year. EPA also argues that forcing people to ditch their wood stoves will result in 360 to 810 fewer death per year”
Thats 56 thousand per life.
So to save all 300 million lives would cost us 16 trillion, 800 billion.
Just more empty talk. Republicans supposedly oppose a lot of things but they never take any meaningful actions to stop them.
Meanwhile federal agencies are running wild, effectively legislating on their own. Until Republicans make an example of some wayward agency nothing is going to change. Arbitrary rule making will continue to be forced on the American people. This is no way to run a government.
But it's not even a law. It's a "rule."
NULLIFY AND IGNORE THIS DAMN NONSENSE!