Posted on 11/12/2019 7:37:01 AM PST by Red Badger
Environmentalists in California are willing to let the state dictate how they cook in their own kitchens in an attempt to save the planet.
Thirteen cities and one county in California have put in place zoning codes encouraging or requiring all-electric new construction, virtually banning builders from running natural gas lines into homes and apartments to fuel appliances, including stoves and ovens.
USA Today reported that people believe the move is necessary to fight climate change “with an eye toward creating fewer legacy gas hookups as the nation shifts to carbon-neutral energy sources.”
USA Today reported on the move “to fight climate change”:
For natural gas companies, it’s a threat to their existence. And for some cooks who love to prepare food with flame, it’s an unthinkable loss.
Natural gas is a fossil fuel, mostly methane, and produces 33% of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas causing climate change.
“There’s no pathway to stabilizing the climate without phasing gas out of our homes and buildings,” Rachel Golden of the Sierra Club’s building electrification campaign, said. “This is a must-do for the climate and a livable planet.”
But the page linked to on the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) website is referring, ironically, to CO2 emissions from the U.S. electric power sector by source for 2018. The new codes call for replacing gas with electricity.
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Remember Baywatch..?
FR reminder that throwing a football or frisbee on any public beach in LA county outside of a designated zone gets you a ONE THOUSAND DOLLAR FINE.
Same thing goes if you dig a hole, YES IN THE SAND, of over 18 inches in depth.
You THINK I made that up, I don’t blame you for thinking that at all.
This is ridiculous. Are restaurants exempt?
Idiotic and really stupid policy.
Who needs a gas range? Just go grill yer food over a wildfire.
Just the beginning. How long before it’s gasoline? Then home heating oil? that’s the goal, even if they don’t tell you.
There is no way to get enough energy from sun/wind to power our industrialized civilization. Can’t happen.
Since they want to eliminate Western Civilization, you can see the connection.
Power outages, then no natural gas.
Want to live in the cold, with no car, eating grasshoppers? Vote democrat.
They are idiots.
FR reminder that it’s illegal to BBQ on your porch or backyard in many Calif cities.
Not at a public beach:
On your PRIVATE PROPERTY.
Silently? With no party or booze?
Yes, silently. Alone.
It’s illegal and gets you a big fine.
This is getting about like having all the cows in India. We have all this energy under our feet but the Climate Change religion forbids the use of it.
Other states or even neighboring towns in California need to advertise that we will use all sources of energy available to help insure that you can have a good and prosperous life for you and your family.
Florida, too................
All civilization is based on the abundance and availability of energy, in one form or another.
Take away all energy resources and civilization will collapse...............
They want everyone on electric because it’s much easier to cut you off.
With smart (aka nazi) meters, it can be done remotely.
WHAT about wood fires - wood stoves - is there a ban on them?
Time to fire up that wood stove!
Rachel Golden, Sierra Club
"There's no path to stabilizing the climate without phasing out your gas hookup."
Ms. Golden's group will NEVER stop.
No matter HOW much you try to accomodate her, she will demand more, indeed her angry outrage will only build, all as you try to placate her.
They never shut-up, it's endless.
They have been banned for a while..................
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4650503-181/wood-fireplaces-and-stoves-banned
Yet our power company keeps shutting off our electricity. Another example of stupidity.
re: “With smart (aka nazi) meters, it can be done remotely.”
Not a really big deal; smart meters can be bypassed, like in the ‘old days’ when they simply removed a meter, and SMs can be jammed, wrapped with a whole roll of aluminum foil ... you get the idea ...
“There’s no path to stabilizing the climate without phasing out your ____________________.”
Fill in the blank with whatever is the current evil technology..................
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