Posted on 03/16/2023 7:32:44 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Regulators in the San Francisco Bay Area voted Wednesday to eliminate the sale and installation of natural gas-powered furnaces and water heaters over eight years beginning in 2027, ostensibly to limit air pollution.
The vote was the latest step taken by left-wing jurisdictions against natural gas — a convenient and relatively clean-burning source of fuel.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported (original links):
Bay Area regulators voted Wednesday to adopt rules to phase out the sale and installation of natural-gas furnaces and water heaters over the next eight years, one of the most ambitious plans in the country to replace gas appliances with electric alternatives.
The rules, approved by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, are meant to reduce air pollution from some of the worst home-appliance offenders. The main pollutants targeted are nitrogen oxides, or NOx, which can cause acid rain and smog as well as increase risk for asthma and other respiratory diseases.
People will be able to repair their gas appliances if they break — but the rules take effect when existing gas-powered furnaces or water heaters no longer work and need to be replaced. New construction will also be required to have zero-NOx — effectively, electric — furnaces and water heaters.
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What’s a “regulator”????????
Well, they’d better find alternative ways to heat their homes and treat their water.
Not really. This gives them time to gaslight and demonize gas appliances.
“Regulator” = ideologue from bankrupt city government
What would you expect from turd rollers who wear flowers in their hair.
Something must have happened since I left that area. I don’t recall their being an acid rain problem there, ever. I wonder where all this electric is going to be coming from to run the vehicles, gas powered furnaces et al.
Excellent.
They should keeps those great ideas coming.
Maybe windmill-powered stoves. Or something.
All restaurants that use gas cooking should immediately close................
They better figure out a way to burn human feces scraped off the sidewalks or they’re not going to have a heating source.
We must stop all these emissions....nevermind the human feces, needles, vomit and blood on our sidewalks....
They will eventually feel the consequences. I have no empathy, although I grow concerned that PA will follow CA’s lead despite sitting on one of the world’s largest natural gas deposits.
Our Lenox gas furnace is probably 30 years old (maybe 35) which is probably way past its predicted life span. It has worked well and has only required one ignitor change-out in all those years! It’s really quite amazing.
I was hoping I wouldn’t have to change it out before I pass, but the GOD DAMNED bastards have now pushed me into a corner. There’s another huge expense I wasn’t planning on.
Every single day I wake up with more reasons to HATE our state and federal governments.
When the electricity goes out in the San Francisco Bay area, residents will be allowed to burn Regulators for heating and cooking.
Why not just ban natural gas? Problem solved!
If you live in a place like Lake Tahoe, the winters will be brutal, but hey, you voted for this crap so enjoy the suck!
What’s a “regulator”?
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politician.
Okay fine, I’ll buy an OIL powered furnace instead...
See how they like them apples.
Mark Twain once said that the coldest winter he ever spent was a summer in San Fransisco.
San Francisco Bay Area , the cold and unwashed ,LOL
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