These people complain every little thing you have to have a fireplace its a must

Here we go!

There is no better smell in the world then a neighbors chimney on a winter afternoon. I will glad keep the .0000001% risk that it is going to kill me.

Tree huggers burning trees just for the look of a fire? As an advanced society we no longer need to burn trees in an individual house to keep warm. We have heat pumps, gas and electric furnaces to keep warm. Time to outlaw fireplaces. What are these selfish people thinking, cutting down TREES just to burn them. If you listen very closely you can almost hear the cries of the trees while they are burning.

Time to call Sierra Club, dial Green Peace, time for all tree huggers to unite and demand the end of this cruel practice towards our friends the trees.

I fully expected, and hoped, that this was a humor topic.

If you follow the logic that they've used then no new homes should be built in that region at all because of the earthquake risk.

Idiots.

I'm surprized they dont initiate a fireplace tax. Create a branch of the fire dept to show up on your doorstep to collect the fee.

"The air is a mess and each of us contributes to it," said Santa Rosa Councilwoman Marsha Vas Dupre, a supporter of the proposed ordinance. "When we can contribute to cleaning it up, we should do that"

Why don't you try taking your own advice Marsha baby, and shut your mouth.

I swear to God, these pinheads' main purpose in life is to find problems where there isn't any.

The wood industry is big business in Canada and Maine. We can only heat two ways: oil and wood. We heat our home every winter with wood in a big wood furnace in the basement.

We buy 8 cords of wood every summer. Then in October, stack it in the basement for the winter.

We all know how oil prices fluctuates. It's a lot cheaper to heat with wood in the winter then oil. We do not have natural gas in northern Maine. Heating ones home with wood is not only a tradition up here, it's a must.

And your right! There is nothing better then to go outside and smell the wood burning on a cold day.

cutting down TREES just to burn them

Trees use photosynthesis to convert the sun's energy into chemical storage mechanisms, allowing trees to grow, right?

So, burning a tree is merely releasing the solar power collected by that tree into your house. Greens should love this!

P.S. They don't want you to burn trees, a renewable resource, they want you to burn petrochemical gas logs powered by, uh, ANWR?

These people need to wear a plastic bubble with a self-contained air supply and leave the other 99.95% of the public alone.

Last year they complained that we were burning oil and gas, fossel fuel to keep warm now its renewable fuel. Another alternative is for them to go to Afganistan and burn camel dung to keep warm. By the way, the Afganis don't seem to like other people either. Good place for 'em.

See also 'BURNING ISSUE: Killer wood smoke'

Ahhh but wait; here's what CARB (Cal. Air Resources Control Board) ((the folks that brought us MTBE)) is proposing and why...

·BAN THE BARRELS!

Residential waste burning is the practice of outdoor burning of household garbage and rubbish associated with one and two unit family homes. Typically, 55-gallon metal drums known as burn barrels are used for this burning.
· The smoke and ash created by these fires contain many toxic pollutants, including dioxins and furans (collectively referred to as dioxins). These toxic pollutants can travel long distances and contaminate air, water, food, and soil where they may last in the environment for many years.
· These toxic pollutants can also accumulate in the fat of animals and fish, which is then passed on to people when contaminated food is eaten.
· Dioxins can cause cancer, immune system damage, and other health effects. Infants and young children may be especially vulnerable to dioxin exposure according to the State Office of Environmental Health and Hazard Assessment. The smoke produced by burn barrels may also cause other health effects, such as triggering asthma attacks. Other cancer causing pollutants such as benzene and 1,3-butadiene are also generated.

It's "you're" not "your" =)

I can't think of a better mixed smell than hickory smoke and bacon cooking. Maybe in Maine you could provide some hot cakes and maple syrup to go with it.

Enviros want to take away the bacon, hickory and do away with warfare against the maple tree. The scaring hurts.

Damn!!!! I live in NJ...and McGreevey is governor-elect...I can see this coming.

These people would be happier if we all just committed suicide so we don't have to die from some malady later on.

I gather, split, and stack all my own firewood. (Benjamin Franklin said that he who cuts his own firewood is twice warmed.) I'll be damned if any tree-hugger is going to tell me that I can't heat my house the same way our forefathers did, going back as far as when we were still living in caves and mud huts.

The Peninsula enclosing San Francisco Bay is choked with dying mixed hardwood forests that produce vast quantities of mold spores from rotting wood. This is largely because of fire suppression. These spores are known irritants and allergens that are implicated in asthma attacks as well. These forests have adapted over the last few millennia to frequent burning (every five to eight years). Many of the local species cannot reproduce without fire. Some have limited seed viability. Others are being choked out of the forest by shade. We are literally causing extinctions with this policy. Because of fire suppression, if they torch it now, the forests (including many redwood stands because of regulatory suppression of logging) will be incinerated by the fuel load. Subsequent to a fire the weeds will take over and erosion will accelerate (besides costing a few billion to replace the houses).

These forests need thinning and weeding. What do we do with the wood? How do we fund the work? Some of these idiot RICOnuts need to get a clue: "Natural" air isn't clean.

I'd bet Gray Davis just hustled a campaign donation from the propane lobby.

I can't think of a better mixed smell than hickory smoke and bacon cooking. Maybe in Maine you could provide some hot cakes and maple syrup to go with it.

The only other thing that would compliment this marvelous cornucopia would be fresh, hot coffee brewing.

The only other thing that would compliment this marvelous cornucopia would be fresh, hot coffee brewing.

One more for the mix: the smell of toast. Then you'd have Heaven.

Let's ban Fire! The most important human invention!!!!