EPA To Alaskans In Sub-Zero Temps: Stop Burning Wood To Keep Warm

[gotbeer]

EPA To Alaskans In Sub-Zero Temps: Stop Burning Wood To Keep Warm

it's a good thing they voted for Trump.  Although common sense should have trumped any party.

[gotbeer]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2014/01/29/epas-wood-burning-stove-ban-has-chilling-consequences-for-many-rural-people/#17b678fc18bb

Forbes is going even further.  No more fireplaces. 

[Make Angels Great Again]

Aren't cow farts the biggest contributor to climate change according to the scientists? The EPA should concern itself with figuring out how to deal with that instead of this stupid crap.

[UndertheHalo]

obviously this is something that should be reviewed.  They shouldn't be treated punitively for surviving.  I gotta wonder tho, just how many people are living in frigid AF rural ass Alaska ?

The overall mission of the EPA is a noble one, even if this small group is getting a stiff shake (and it should be corrected)

[Thomas]

Interesting since I am not required to smog my vehicle in any way where I live.

[Ordos]

3 hours ago, Make Angels Great Again said:

Aren't cow farts the biggest contributor to climate change according to the scientists? The EPA should concern itself with figuring out how to deal with that instead of this stupid crap.

http://modernfarmer.com/2016/10/seaweed-livestock-methane-emissions/

[Ordos]

3 hours ago, Make Angels Great Again said:

Aren't cow farts the biggest contributor to climate change according to the scientists? The EPA should concern itself with figuring out how to deal with that instead of this stupid crap.

http://modernfarmer.com/2016/10/seaweed-livestock-methane-emissions/

[Jason]

I'm glad our government doesn't over reach.  

[Tank]

4 hours ago, gotbeer said:

EPA To Alaskans In Sub-Zero Temps: Stop Burning Wood To Keep Warm

"The problem is, there’s no replacement for wood-burning stoves in Alaska’s interior. Heating oil is too expensive for a lot of people, and natural gas isn’t available. So they’ve got to burn something. The average low temperature in Fairbanks in December is 13 degrees below zero. In January, it’s 17 below. During the coldest days of winter, the high temperature averages -2 degrees, and it can get as cold as -60. This is not a place where you play games with the cold. If you don’t keep the fire lit, you die. For people of modest means, and especially for the poor, that means you burn wood in a stove—and you keep that fire lit around the clock."

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oy, bureaucrats.

[Spirit]

Yeah, but ... ummm ... Trump sucks!

 

 

 

 

[gotbeer]

31 minutes ago, Tank said:

"The problem is, there’s no replacement for wood-burning stoves in Alaska’s interior. Heating oil is too expensive for a lot of people, and natural gas isn’t available. So they’ve got to burn something. The average low temperature in Fairbanks in December is 13 degrees below zero. In January, it’s 17 below. During the coldest days of winter, the high temperature averages -2 degrees, and it can get as cold as -60. This is not a place where you play games with the cold. If you don’t keep the fire lit, you die. For people of modest means, and especially for the poor, that means you burn wood in a stove—and you keep that fire lit around the clock."

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oy, bureaucrats.

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What would the EPA have Alaskans do, use solar panels to heat their homes in winter?

LOL.  And you know.  There is a bunch of SJW's out there saying that's what they should do.

Edited December 31, 2016 by gotbeer

[UndertheHalo]

solar panels also strike me as being a problem because....well.  They have their time of the year when there is no sun light.

[Adam]

I'm guessing these folks will tell the epa to suck their eskimo cocks

[arch stanton]

Except that many of the ones affected are whiter than the snow

[tdawg87]

Do human farts have a negative impact on the environment? I only ask because I fart about 40 times a day on average. 

[mtangelsfan]

The AW libs are strangely silent on this one.

Oh well, I'm sure Trevor Noah or Samantha Bee will take on this subject.

[Blarg]

Fucking dumbasses, wood is a replenishable energy source unlike oil. The EPA needs to be shut down, they are run by fucktards.

[Adam]

They should burn meth. Also replenishable 

[Spirit]

Yeah, yeah, yeah ... but did you see what Trump tweeted?

 

 

 

 

[AngelsLongBall]

It's only a matter of time before your bbq will be illegal. Usually I say compliance by legislation, but CARB and EPA are autonomous  and without legislative oversight 

Edited January 1, 2017 by AngelsLongBall

[arch stanton]

Would I be an apologist if I point out that they haven't actually done anything yet?

[AngelsLongBall]

Yes, don't be naive

[Taylor]

The EPA needs to STFU and go after big businesses that destroy the environment.

[Thomas]

3 hours ago, AngelsLongBall said:

It's only a matter of time before your bbq will be illegal. 

Before I left CA (So pre-2009) I chatted the management of the Bear Pit BBQ in Mission Hills. They said that they couldn't remodel because their smokers were grandfathered in and they would lose them if they did.

[Amazing Larry]

Whenever I hear that it's a "no burn day" here in SoCal I throw a couple more logs in my fireplace. What a joke.