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.
You will find no warmth in the peasants, homes,my lord.
They have no wood to burn.
My edict?
Yes,sire.Your edict.
And they don’t care, because you will submit to their decrees.
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know what no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
George Orwell
1984