[ctdonath2]

“Has the government ever before said that it will force people owning old cars to get rid of those cars?”

I don’t see where the article says people will be _forced_ to get rid of their old stoves. Demanding higher standards for selling them is different.

Remember Cash For Clunkers? While it didn’t _force_ people to destroy old cars instead of selling them, it did make it financially infeasible to resell.

[xzins]

From the article: EPA also argues that forcing people to ditch their wood stoves will result in 360 to 810 fewer death per year from reduced emissions of carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds.

Why would the EPA be arguing that?

[sheana]

They will do the same thing they have done here. The regs say we cannot sell our house with the pellet stove we have in it. It is an old one and not on the EPA approval list. The stove must be disabled by filling it with cement or removed. That’s really stupid since if we remove it what is left is a masonry fireplace which smokes a heckuva lot more than a pellet stove. OF course their reasoning is that we would replace it with an EPA approved pellet stove but if we are selling it will be removed and the old fashioned smokey fireplace will be put back into use.