Posted on 02/07/2015 6:36:42 AM PST by xzins
What goes unmentioned is that government forest management has been a total disaster. Much of the wood burns in forest fires anyway with far greater emissions than a stove. We actually need economic uses for wood to fund forest management.
See my post #56.
only costing $45.7 million per year
Those tax payers can always make do with less. We in the Govt however always need more.
This is to help save more low income people? Don’t low income people live in the cities, in poor areas, where there are few wood burning stoves? A wood stove isn’t really a cost effective option where you can’t chop down your own wood.
the peasantry where I live are all armed and for many their primary source of meat is fish and game.
Now you’re talking! Repeal, baby, repeal. :)
We now live in an era when the new things we buy are worse than the old. My brand new home with low flow showerhead and low flow toilet don’t work as well as the older flush toilet and showerhead. My new dishwasher is a weak shadow of the 10 year old one it replaced. Only my washer seems to work better, but that is because I replaced a top with a front loader. Newer top loaders do not do a good job, according to Consumer Reports. And don’t get me started on light bulbs.
Where I’m at even a not so efficient wood stove is cheaper heat even if you buy your wood. With fuel oil over 3 a gallon this year and propane at about 2, both of the subject to extreme rise simply due to bad weather, there really is no comparison to a half cord of wood in a pickup truck for 50 or 60 bucks.
Do you call the hazmat team to remove the mercury when your ‘green’ low wattage twisty bulbs break? :>)
Once the Fedgov got it past SCOTUS that they could force people to buy something it's just a very small step to forcing folks to get rid of private property of any kind.
Liberals/Progressives are patient. They use baby steps to get their agenda to be canonized.
You have a point, I wasn’t thinking of oil heat. However pretty much all the inner city buildings have been converted to gas.
You should check out building a wood gasifier. It can produce heat AND run a generator...which produces even more heat.
California had smoke Nazis whose sole job was to drive around and look at chimneys. I imagine they still do.
Use spray foam in that double wall and even sound is muffled. I was surprised by a simple 6” wall with the stuff deadening street noise such that not even construction noise across the street was heard.
My last assignment in Germany they had instituted a new law that you could only warm your car up for 2 minutes on a cold morning.
I actually had people knock on my door to complain about my car running on a cold day.
Hard to believe that Americans are more like Europeans every day.....can’t walk on the grass, but offing an entire race is just fine.
Yeah....I put a 2 inch foam layer on the roof prior to installing new tiles....sure deadened the sound...warmer in winter and cooler in summer....even were able to get rid of the A/C ...I guess also because the world is slowly cooling.
You’re right. It’s a whole lot different out here in the countryside. I have my own trees....lots of them. No other energy source can compete with free (plus my labor, of course.)
Hardy?
Central Boiler Classic
ah, OK. These are pretty cool products. Saves me a ton on my electric bill. And the family likes the unlimited hot water.
And they do give off a better heat too.
“Has the government ever before said that it will force people owning old cars to get rid of those cars?”
Yep. If your car does not pass smog and it is not repairable, it goes.
THey did it with trucks in CA. Any commercial vehicle in CA must have a 2010 or new engine or be retro fitted with a $18000 pollution device by 1 Jan 2015 or it goes. I think by some future date there are to be no old trucks on the road. I think eventually they will extend this to cars.
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