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San Francisco Bay Area Bans Gas Furnaces and Water Heaters
Briedbart ^ | 03/16/2023 | Joel B Pollack

Posted on 03/16/2023 7:32:44 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: Jim W N

“Regulator” — i.e., the wonderful “Bay Area Air Quality Management District” who rules over every detail of our lives in the Bay Area.

They weren’t satisfied banning wood fired. Now they are going after the absolutely cleanest burning fuel of all.

For a while, I thought that MAYBE they’d be satisfied banning wood.

I moved to California in ‘73, but spent five years traveling all over the west and the world on field service work. I settled in the Bay Area and bought a house in 1978. We moved to a different house in 1983. The air here back then WAS very bad. There were 20 to 30 days every summer where you could not see across the bay for the big brown cloud. But we’ve done a great job cleaning the air and a day like that is exceedingly rare now. The air is crystal clear most days of the year which is amazing for an area with six or seven million people.

I see absolutely no need to take this insane next step, especially because there will be no electricity to heat homes.


21 posted on 03/16/2023 7:43:35 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (The government's lying liars love to lie)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So, if I eat beans will I be banned from San Fran?


22 posted on 03/16/2023 7:44:49 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: ChicagoConservative27

2027?????? Some stupid date they pulled out of their butt

2027 will be known as the year that California experienced a brutal and long winter were many people froze to death due to lack of wind and solar power generation.


23 posted on 03/16/2023 7:44:51 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Some of those soon to be rich ($5 mil) folks should be able to afford the new heating devices, don’t you think?


24 posted on 03/16/2023 7:45:26 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob
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To: Mouton

PG&E - Pacific Gas & Electric. Soon to change to PE


25 posted on 03/16/2023 7:45:44 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The “BIG ONE” can’t come soon enough for Kalifornia!


26 posted on 03/16/2023 7:45:57 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT The NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR & Faux Snooze! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper! )
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To: Red Badger

“All restaurants that use gas cooking should immediately close...............

Or at least announce plans to relocate away from this craziness.


27 posted on 03/16/2023 7:46:04 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Similar outcome to Cash For Clunkers.


28 posted on 03/16/2023 7:46:06 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (LIVE FREE OR DIE)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Isn’t that he same city that wants to give all black people several million dollars for reparations? Even though California was never a slave state.


29 posted on 03/16/2023 7:46:15 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Fully agreed. Nuclear has been our best option for a long time, but frightens too many. Time to move on from the yayhoos and get our electrical grid up to snuff. You know, like a First World civilization would do.


30 posted on 03/16/2023 7:46:32 AM PDT by drwoof
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They (Regulators and State Politicians) always do this in California so time goes by before it kicks in. Water regulation is set to go into effect in 2025-50 gallons per day per household. This is one screwed up State.


31 posted on 03/16/2023 7:49:24 AM PDT by Metrobank
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Of course they did.

I’m sure Nancy, et al, are exempt . . .

I’m not positive won’t that will put an additional strain on their electrical grid that has already been failing?

Maybe they can go back to cooking over wood fires. No, wait . . .


32 posted on 03/16/2023 7:50:05 AM PDT by MCSETots
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Idiots. Let ‘em freeze.


33 posted on 03/16/2023 7:51:13 AM PDT by EinNYC
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Well, they could just stop taking showers and that would mean no worrying about clean clothes. Tofu and bugs don’t need to be cooked and huddle with other stinky hippies to stay warm.


34 posted on 03/16/2023 7:52:38 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

The only thing that might be beneficial is no fires from ruptured lines when the big one hits.


35 posted on 03/16/2023 7:53:08 AM PDT by DejaJude (I'll be back, again.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Be interesting to see the rationale. Time for politically connected businesses to get up to speed? Laws put in place to ban people from moving? Time to build their oen version of the Berlin Wall? Time to back out if the residents push back?

If appliance manufacturers had balls, they would immediately stop sales to that area.

And what are they doing to increase power for the requirements on the electric grid?

36 posted on 03/16/2023 7:53:18 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: Tench_Coxe

I’m sure there’s some money being exchanged for this.


37 posted on 03/16/2023 7:55:08 AM PDT by DejaJude (I'll be back, again.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Fools.

Evil fools.


38 posted on 03/16/2023 7:56:37 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: Jim W N

Regulators





39 posted on 03/16/2023 7:57:03 AM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Jim W N

Forbidding the use of natural gas for heating and cooking purposes. What is the rationale?

This is not the first assault on use of natural gas. Back in the 1970’s, Jimmy Carter banned the use of natural gas for lawn lighting and for large searchlights, for no plausible reason. Natural gas was cheap back then, and widely available, posing little or no danger if properly installed.

There used to be a huge searchlight on the roof of the Playboy Tower in downtown Chicago, that lit up the sky and was used as a beacon for pilots on night flight to Chicago to guide them toward Chicago, or otherwise orientate their flight pattern as a visual reference. Years later, when the ban on gas lighting was lifted, the searchlight could not be restarted, as the constructions of taller buildings in the immediate vicinity of the Playboy Tower just completely blocked off any such beam.


40 posted on 03/16/2023 7:59:08 AM PDT by alloysteel (Why do you call everybody "@sshole"? Because it is gender neutral.)
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