You know, I heard this on the radio last week. I think it is some study that just came out, totally bogus. The air pollution is so negligible these days, really not bad at all, at least here in Los Angeles. Sheesh, remember the 1970s here? We have catalytic converters on our cars, etc. You can barely even see the air anymore, and I never see that awful inversion layer just hanging over town.
I think this is bogus, and I think it is just designed to take control of SOME bit of something by the libs.
Just a hunch. The next ‘scare’?? now that GW has been proven ridiculous? I’m not buying it.
Show me the dead bodies, too. And I’d like to see what other variables were involved — alcohol, drugs, lowlife living. What?
“I think this is bogus, and I think it is just designed to take control of SOME bit of something by the libs.”
You are right, but it is nothing new. The California Air Resources Board has been implementing regulations through a process called “rulemaking” for many years. This effectively creates new law, bypassing the normal legislative process. Every thing is done out front, with public notices of hearings and workshops for the people to attend and provide input, then they move forward and create the regulations they wanted in the first place. CARB regulations are the reason for fuel being more expensive in California than most other places. Several years ago they were successful in implementing the requirement for the “spill-proof” gas cans required in California now, and they are moving forward in regulating wood stove usage in various parts of the state. It begins locally with voluntary “Don’t Light Tonight” programs to curb usage during low air quality times, but advances to bans on usage of wood burners, such as Fresno County now has. I always thought I would get in trouble with the government over my firearms ownership, never thought it would be because of my woodstove. They can have mine when they pry it from my cold, dead hands. Come to think of it, it’s time to throw another log on.