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Utah Proposes Winter Wood Burning Ban to Improve Air Quality
AccuWeather ^ | 1-24-15 | Jillian MacMath

Posted on 01/24/2015 7:09:05 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin

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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“UN Agenda 21 at work to make life impossibly expensive for non-essential personnel.”

If it’s cold at night, get one of Jimmy Carter’s sweaters...you voted for these bums, people - now snuggle up, go back to work and pay your taxes.


41 posted on 01/24/2015 9:32:56 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Arlis

Guess what? From the 1700’s well into the 1900’s, everyone heated with either wood or coal...…

While not commenting on the freedom aspect, I can say that my mom grew up in Cache Valley when coal was the predominant heating fuel. In winter the snow was covered by soot during the inversions. Terrible air quality. It has gotten much better as most people have switched to gas, although it can still get bad due to auto exhaust.


42 posted on 01/24/2015 9:44:13 PM PST by Imnidiot (This space for Rent)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Who wants to heat their homes in winter!? I mean, come on people!


43 posted on 01/24/2015 11:07:16 PM PST by vpintheak (Call them what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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To: Arlis

“Guess what? From the 1700’s well into the 1900’s, everyone heated with either wood or coal......”

Sure did, my mom cooked many a meal on a wood burning stove when we lived up in the Umatilla National forest, dad manned a tower and fought fires. We eventually moved to Weston Ore and the event in the article would happen there every year during the winter. When you came through the pass dropping into town it was covered in a smoky haze. Other than a constant smell of smoke we never paid much attention to it. Health wise it didn’t seem to bother us either, all of us kids are well over 60, mom passed at 87 and dad turns 94 this September.

During that time describe wood was the only source of energy, we cooked with it, heated with it and built with it. A community would be established and the available wood would immediately start to get farther and farther from town. Wood haulers would travel quite a ways from town to cut and haul back to town until that source was gone and them go find another. Wood was consumed at an astounding rate. Thank God we discovered oil, gas and coal!


44 posted on 01/25/2015 5:45:10 AM PST by Dusty Road (")
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Nanny State Govt. at its finest.


45 posted on 01/25/2015 7:36:25 AM PST by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Nope, the smoking bans would never lead to further encroachments on private property rights...after all, “I have a right to breathe smoke free air!”

Let’s send a special thank you to all the FReepers that supported the foundation for these actions!


46 posted on 01/25/2015 7:52:44 AM PST by CSM
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

be certain to include the AND part of the statement in the debate:

“Homeowners whose homes are heated solely by wood and are registered with DAQ as a sole source residence would be permitted to continue heating with wood,” the DEQ said.


47 posted on 01/25/2015 7:59:00 AM PST by lyby ("Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." ~ Galileo Galilei)
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To: Dusty Road

As wood was used for everything in the mid-1800’s, pictures from then seem to show that the eastern US is 10x more forested now than it was then.......in general, Civil War pics show a denuded land.


48 posted on 01/25/2015 4:24:22 PM PST by Arlis
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To: Arlis

Was at the Vicksburg battlefield and couldn’t figure out how the short range artillery was able to shoot through or over the tree’s. Later I looked at some old pictures of the battlefield and surrounding area, it was barren.


49 posted on 01/26/2015 5:11:50 AM PST by Dusty Road (")
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To: Arlis

Look at pictures of Petersburg battlefield from 1865 and then go there today. It is a completely forrested area now. If the Park service wanted the battlefield to look authentic they would open it up to logging.


50 posted on 01/26/2015 5:22:35 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

If Utah were really conservative it would simply eliminate it’s DEQ. What a tragedy that a nation born to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness would end up so far left.


51 posted on 01/28/2015 4:40:12 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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