Regulators
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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“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.
So, if I eat beans will I be banned from San Fran?
2027?????? Some stupid date they pulled out of their butt
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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.
Some of those soon to be rich ($5 mil) folks should be able to afford the new heating devices, don’t you think?
PG&E - Pacific Gas & Electric. Soon to change to PE
The “BIG ONE” can’t come soon enough for Kalifornia!
“All restaurants that use gas cooking should immediately close...............
Or at least announce plans to relocate away from this craziness.
Similar outcome to Cash For Clunkers.
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.
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.
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.
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 . . .
Idiots. Let ‘em freeze.
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.
The only thing that might be beneficial is no fires from ruptured lines when the big one hits.
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?
I’m sure there’s some money being exchanged for this.
Fools.
Evil fools.
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.
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