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| Seattle Might Ban New Homes and Buildings From Using Natural Gas |
| 2019-09-08 |
| [TOWNHALL] The Seattle Times reports that Seattle's city council is considering legislation which would ban all new homes and buildings within city limits from using natural gas, and mandating that these edifices must use electric heating and cooking. Councilmember Mike O’Brien will likely introduce the legislation next week. If passed, it is expected that the regulations will go in effect next summer. "We know that some people rely on natural gas at home and on the natural-gas industry for jobs, so we want to be thoughtful about how we transition," O'Brien said. "But in the meantime, let’s not continue to make the problem worse." Peggi Lewis Fu, executive director of the NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Development Association’s Washington state chapter, slammed the potential proposal. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 Moving from a 90% efficient heat source to a 30% efficient heat source, that also requires vast amounts of capital to generate, makes a lot of sense to complete scientific and economic illiterates. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Gletle1053 2019-09-08 14:43 |
| #9 That will significantly reduce new home sales in favour of old homes — one way to ensure the gentrification of the slums, thus pricing the poor out their former homes. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-09-08 14:32 |
| #8 When the reason behind regulation is said to be green you know the real reason is to increase rent seeking. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-09-08 12:33 |
| #7 Science and Math be Hard, SPOD. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2019-09-08 11:11 |
| #6 Oh well, just more natural gas to use to generate electricity Don’t these clowns know that natural gas is used to generate electricity and as such electricity is somewhat BTU negative meaning it takes more BTUs of gas to generate the electricity than the resulting energy can produce |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2019-09-08 09:56 |
| #5 A cost efficient way to heat a home is banned in favor of an expensive one. The poor will be hardest hit by this. Just as intended. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2019-09-08 09:10 |
| #4 Major oil tankers have converted to natural gas. Ditto Morons. |
| Posted by: Dale 2019-09-08 08:21 |
| #3 ^Not all the people, just wrong kind of people. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB 2019-09-08 05:05 |
| #2 The actual target is people. They want to ban people. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-09-08 03:48 |
| #1 Morons. Carbon emissions are not the problem. YOU ARE. |
| Posted by: newc 2019-09-08 00:22 |