Monday, September 30, 2013

Are woodstoves about to be outlawed?

It appears that the tyrannical EPA is planning to force all users of woodstoves to scrap them, for no compensation, and replace them with another source of heat.


   "If this article is to be believed, the government, through the EPA, will require that all new woodstoves be EPA approved. Old woodstoves will have to be scrapped (the law will not allow old woodstoves to be sold). And the enforcement of this new measure will most likely be effected through home insurance companies. 

The writer of the article states that "The EPA is just another tool of subjugation." That pretty much sums it up."


It is my understanding that the nation's air is cleaner than it's been in years, so the need for this is not clear.  

Unless, that is, the government has an innate hostility to anything that allows people to fend for themselves independent of the government itself.

On this issue, and many others, we see again the propensity of government to make normal things illegal, and to tell us again and again what we can and can't do with our own lives, even down to how to heat our own homes.

The wisdom of the founders in making government as small and weak as possible appears every day to have been the right way to go.   Whether we can return to that better way without disaster remains to be seen.

Hat tip: Gorge's Grouse

9 comments:

  1. I can see that if I want a wood stove made, I'll need to go to Mexico, buy one and bring it north. Or go up to Canada --- anywhere but here. Burning wood in wood stoves does not destroy the environment. Sure, if everyone in the LA Basin did it, there would be a problem, but that doesn't apply to 95% of the nation.

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  2. There definitely are places where sane regulation would be appropriate, and indeed the LA basin is one, but to make an irrational nationwide edict like this is very unseemly in a government

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    1. I wonder if the State of Alaska will roll over for this one. Much of the state is heated by wood fired stoves in private homes.

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    2. There are rural components of the Intermountain West where people cook on coal stoves because it's a lot less expensive than propane or electricity. Does the federal government want to outlaw that too?

      What about smoking sheds where meat and fish are cured? Does that mean the end of BBQ in Texas and the South?

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    3. I see huge resistance in all sorts of areas. Lots of places use wood in the upper midwest, Appalachia and even New England. Sounds like a lot of folks should be encouraged to contact their representatives on this.

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  3. And in some places what the Feds won't do, so-called well meaning local governments or agencies will.
    In Chico, CA they restrict what days folds may actually use their wood stoves depending upon the atmospheric conditions.

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    1. Before they regulated wood smoke there in Chico, did you notice trouble with too much of it in the air from people burning wood in their homes?

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  4. This reg is already in place in Fresno County for new stoves. And we have regulated burn days with the exception for homes where there is no other source of heat than the stove. If you buy a home here with an existing non-EPA wood burning, you don't have to replace it. No new homes here are even built with wood burning fireplaces.....all gas.

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