Bay Area air regulators consider ban on wood fires

AP via SFGate ^ | 2/2/7

[SmithL]

San Francisco Bay area air quality regulators are proposing a mandatory ban on wood fires in fireplaces and stoves when the air is bad.

Under the proposed rules, wood fires would be prohibited in the nine-county Bay Area on "Spare the Air" days — when air quality is expected to reach unhealthy levels.

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District Board has asked its staff to draft rule options so it can hold hearings on a proposed ban this summer.

[Redcloak]

Will they ban beans too?

[RightWhale]

Why not ban wood stoves. Fairbanks banned the use within city limits when the air is bad, which is usually when it is really cold.

[Calpernia]

Here is an example of steps being taken on making CO2 regulated at the local level.

[HKMk23]

Why not ban wood stoves[?]

Why not ban chainsaws?
Why not ban SUVs?
Why not ban gas-powered mowers?
Why not ban barbecue grilles?
...
Why not ban lawns?
Why not ban the use of non-indigenous species in all landscaping?
Why not ban disposable diapers?
Why not ban internal combustion engines?
Why not ban electricity?
Why not ban ...?

You DO realize, don't you, that some statist dog reading this stuff is nodding it's head going, "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure, let's ban all of it, man. why the Hell not?"

That kind of crap just NEVER ends. Or perhaps you missed the one from earlier this week about the two-bit motard in Sacramento that want's to ban incandescent light bulbs??

Liberals are straight-up, stone-cold WHACK! Bent on dragging the whole human race, kicking and scrreaming back into the Dark Ages. Mock them. Gawk at them. Poke them with a stick to see what they'll do. But, for crying out loud, DON'T join them!

[Old Professer]

I installed a steel swedish style fireplace with triple layer pipe in an add-on room in Ohio following all the instructions and cautions.

I placed a duraflame log in that sucker and lit it up.

Thirty minutes later, I had all the windows open, the door open, the garage door open trying to cool that crazy thing down.

When the log finally burned out and the paint had fully cured, my toes were curled and I learned how to saw the dumb things in half lengthwise.

[oceanview]

actually, you may well be wrong there. modern cars hardly pollute the air at all.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

So Californians learned nothing from the recent cold snap that hit the state.

I'd make more disparaging comments about the state but FR is located there.

[bfree]

If islam attacked the Queen city, I doubt I would be upset.

[Calpernia]

Believe it, or not....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1775407/posts?page=11
Wind breakers (Global Warming friendly underwear?)

[Calpernia]

They are working on no fire extinguishers next

http://www.epa.gov/ozone/snap/fire/co2/co2report.html
U.S. EPA: CO2 as a Fire Suppressant: Examining the Risks

[Calpernia]

I think he is one of them. Or have you not noticed all the 'pretend to be' conservatives on this site?

[Gabz]

I give up.........

Could someone please remind me WHY this country was founded?

[MaxMax]

San Fransicko burned down decades before its time.

[Gabz]

Time for me to throw another log in the woodstove.

[Calpernia]

Never forget, WW2 had a few partnerships. Nazis partnering with el Husseini was one of them. Hitler's Islamic name was Abu Ali. el Husseini's nephew was Arafat. Saddam Hussein married a close friend of el Husseini.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1775846/posts?page=7#7

WW2 didn't start when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Hitler was taking over countries through the 30s. During the 30s, our country was taking in Nazi Youth through our universities. This is how we accumulated so many liberal professors and lawyers.

They are our politicians and our children's teachers now. Amazng how we come full circle.

[Gabz]

I was really looking forward to a pleasant Friday evening........our daughter is at a sleep over, hubby and I were able to actually go out for dinner with other adults...........

[Calpernia]

Have a great evening. If you don't, they have won.

[Axenolith]

A really good one... one to make the regulators cringe in their boots... A homemade fireplace log composed of a section of 6 inch schedule 80 PVC pipe packed with sawdust and ground high sulfur coal soaked in used motor oil, leftover paint, and the last of the diazinon granules you couldn't use on your yard anymore because it got banned... :-)

[Madame Dufarge]

"We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into the Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion - guilt-free at last!"

Stewart Brand - WHOLE EARTH CATALOG

This was around 30 years ago. Marching to Utopia.

[Calpernia]

>>>Stewart Brand - WHOLE EARTH CATALOG

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1568683/posts
A Real-Life Jurassic Park

attn: to post 7 and 9

"environmentalists celebrate the "rewilding" of America"