Does the lunacy EVER end????? Onazi, and his environmental terrorists pulled yet another stunt that literally twists the mind! No damn wonder I now support overthrowing this TYRANNICAL government!!! http://www.newsmax.com/US/heat-energy-wood-stoves/2014/02/18/id/553372
Houses with thicker walls and more insulation would help on heating fuel usage and reduce pollution. This is one stupid culture. Houses in the Mojave Desert are all built with central air. They could be built with thicker walls for more insulation, shades over them and evaporative coolers and use very little energy. They can be built to be even more efficient than that with air passages in a thick slab but it would require changes to the building codes to force it. It will never happen, the legislature is a mindless wholesale whorehouse, practical ideas never get out of committee...
Did those of you with wood-burning stoves know that you'll have to remove it if you sell your home?? Did you know 80% of today's wood-burning stoves are affected by the EPA Gestapo? I live in a semi-tropical environment, and don't 'need' a wood-burning stove, but millions upon millions of Americans DO use them to heat their homes, and NO ONE has ANY business telling them they cant!! Who the fuck is this government to pull this kind of nazi horse shit?!?!?!????? What the mortal fuck??!??!???
Well, let's see. There are approximately 317,000,000 people living in America. How many do you think may live in colder climates where a wood-burning insert/stove/etc., are the norm? You've got the iq of a fly mr camper. I'll also note that you're not opposed to fascism, which is NOT the traditional liberal. Why don't you do a little homework on your "own kind" and see just how much they "loved" the government and being dictated to. I know you're mr big iq, so let me help you out a little: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism_in_the_United_States Read just the first few sentences. Even you will be shocked. Even you... "Liberalism in the United States is a broad political philosophy centered on the unalienable rights of the individual. The fundamental liberal ideals of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion for all belief systems, and the separation of church and state, right to due process and equality under the law are widely accepted as a common foundation across the spectrum of liberal thought."
Let's go directly to the article.... "The number of households heating with wood grew 34 percent from 2000 to 2010, with 2.4 million homes, or 2.1 percent of U.S. housing units, using wood as their primary heating source, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Nearly 10 million additional homes use wood to supplement their primary heat source, the U.S. Energy Information Administration disclosed." According to the U.S. Census Bureau the number of persons per household is 2.61 - this means the number of people who use wood as the primary source for heating in their homes is 6.26 million. The number of people supplementing their homes with wood heating is 26.1 Million. Yes, this EPA decision has a significant impact to a large number of Americans without any reasonable study of the negative economic impact.
Well, mr high iq wheelbarrow believed that I "pulled the figures out of my ass." He's not quite what I would call mr reading comprehension, but look at his life. Pretty much says it all... Anyhow, for your post, yes, millions upon millions heat their homes with wood, and YES, this WILL affect them. My Dad died rather recently/suddenly, and the only source he used to heat his log home was 3-4' logs which he timbered on the 100+ acres he had. Yes, he re-planted so many trees it's unreal. But hey, he was retired, and liked doing that kind of stuff. As for the rest, I can imagine they'll be impacted. They'll probably have to resort to those evil fossil fuels if they can't burn wood, which we've done since the beginning of time... Those fascists are some evil sons of bitches, and certainly aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer considering the impact this 'could' have by banning 80% of the wood-burning stoves/inserts/etc., Only in CURRENT America...
My in-laws who are retired and live in Person County, North Carolina use wood to heat their home. Many of their neighbors use wood to heat their homes. Person County suffers from a lot of poverty - for many families, if they did not heat with wood they would not be able to afford heat.