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2009-08-10 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

In cold Northeast, officials consider limiting furnace emissions

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Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2009-08-10 14:42|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Pellets aren't too bad for heat, yet certainly not as convenient as a thermostat as Barbara says. Some municipalities ban the use of wood-burners of any type, though (correction of single problem by a 'blanket' reaction). Apparently the smoke may irritate some folks sinuses and some don't like the 'smell'.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2009-08-10 15:24|| 2009-08-10 15:24|| Front Page Top

#2 I remember back in the late 1970's-early 1980's people were installing wood stoves around here to save money on heating costs. (Don't remember why exactly - I guess the price of oil had gone up. Again.)

Smoke drifted across the city streets at night as I drove to work through residential areas. Yeah, like that's gonna fly today.

I also remember, as a firefighter at the time, the inordinate number of fires due to people not being used to heating a home with wood and doing something stupid....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-08-10 16:16|| 2009-08-10 16:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Who can afford heat?

Wood won't work. All the US wood pellet production has been sold on long term contracts to the Germans who burn it place of coal, courtesy of their Enviro nutcases. It also costs several times the price of coal. Looks like a lot of Yankees are going to meet Charles Darwin this winter courtesy of our own reality challenged class.

Posted by ed 2009-08-10 17:09|| 2009-08-10 17:09|| Front Page Top

#4 I remember back in the late 1970's-early 1980's people were installing wood stoves around here to save money on heating costs.

When corn was $2/bushel, some folks were burning that in their furnaces since it was cheaper than wood pellets. Another consequence of market distorting governmental policies.

Posted by ed 2009-08-10 17:12|| 2009-08-10 17:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Looks like a lot of Yankees are going to meet Charles Darwin this winter courtesy of our own reality challenged class

The enviro-nutcases view that as a way to further reduce the US carbon footprint.

Posted by DMFD 2009-08-10 18:56|| 2009-08-10 18:56|| Front Page Top

#6 It will reduce health care costs.

Posted by ed 2009-08-10 19:14|| 2009-08-10 19:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Someone (Judicial Watch, Heritage Foundation, etc.) should sue these governors for fraud. Discovery would be a rude awakening for many of these people. It's either that, or as someone mentioned, tar and feathers - or a rope.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-08-10 19:14|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-08-10 19:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Why doesn't affordability enter the mental picture of legislators?

Posted by Unitle Borgia4836 2009-08-10 20:18|| 2009-08-10 20:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Back to your caves heathens!

And don't worry about the CO2 & smoke Barb, they'll just require anyone who wants to heat their home to drill a CO2 sequestration well & install compression & pumping equipment in the back yard. ;)

Posted by AzCat 2009-08-10 22:04|| 2009-08-10 22:04|| Front Page Top

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