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Location: Northeast Nebraska | It's about control and power and money. That's all commies are ever about. And they won't hesitate to kill to get what they want. Just look at their track record. |
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Location: Kansas | komet. - 2014-02-27 11:18 AM Frodo - 2014-02-27 9:21 AM These people fail to consider the fact that someone out there is making a living building woodburning stoves. It will cost jobs. When Obama first came into office, he went after corporate jets, a key industry in the area where I live. The damage took years to overcome.
You're from Kansas so I'm not surprised you don't understand that a whole lot more people make money CUTTING firewood than making the stoves. Where I come from this ban will finally be the start of the shooting war that has been coming. Virtually everybody has a wood stove in rural Missouri and they all have guns too. We simply can't afford any other form of heat in the winter.
True, we get a lot of wood hauled in from Missouri come to think of it.
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Location: Land Of Oz | Frodo - 2014-02-27 2:26 PM komet. - 2014-02-27 11:18 AM Frodo - 2014-02-27 9:21 AM These people fail to consider the fact that someone out there is making a living building woodburning stoves. It will cost jobs. When Obama first came into office, he went after corporate jets, a key industry in the area where I live. The damage took years to overcome.
You're from Kansas so I'm not surprised you don't understand that a whole lot more people make money CUTTING firewood than making the stoves. Where I come from this ban will finally be the start of the shooting war that has been coming. Virtually everybody has a wood stove in rural Missouri and they all have guns too. We simply can't afford any other form of heat in the winter. 
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | As far as I'm concerned, I can't wait for the day when I can tell the electric company and the gas company to shove it.
I'm very intrigued by solar power and it has always fascinated me. It looks like market forces and technology are on the brink of making solar energy much more affordable for individuals. My local "co-op" has tried to stay ahead of the curve by offering people chances to buy solar panels that will be set up at their facility. They say the energy generated by my "investment" will offset monthly elecricity costs. One set of panels would run on the order of $1800....which will probably lower my monthly electricity bill by $50. I like the idea, but not as much as setting up my own, and having them buy from me! As far as the EPA tryng to tell me not to burn wood, they can go straight to hell. I'l just tell them I am doing my part by utilizing the oldest known "renewable" energy source known to man. They can just pound sand, as far as I'm concerned. |
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Location: SW MO | For those of you who live where you have those turbo windmills that run your power, how do they charge you for that? Is it a lot cheaper? |
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Location: Colorado plains standing on a goat head! | crossspur - 2014-02-27 2:58 PM For those of you who live where you have those turbo windmills that run your power, how do they charge you for that? Is it a lot cheaper?
I don't believe it is cheaper, you still have to have the capacity for when the wind isn't blowing. They are high maintenance and you have to build extra transmission lines. IMHO it is another feel good, government boondoggle!  |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Jinx - 2014-02-27 2:30 PM
Frodo - 2014-02-27 2:26 PM komet. - 2014-02-27 11:18 AM Frodo - 2014-02-27 9:21 AM These people fail to consider the fact that someone out there is making a living building woodburning stoves. It will cost jobs. When Obama first came into office, he went after corporate jets, a key industry in the area where I live.  The damage took years to overcome.
 You're from Kansas so I'm not surprised you don't understand that a whole lot more people make money CUTTING firewood than making the stoves. Where I come from this ban will finally be the start of the shooting war that has been coming. Virtually everybody has a wood stove in rural Missouri and they all have guns too. We simply can't afford any other form of heat in the winter. Â
Oh please... I never said anything about you being stupid... But I'm from Missouri and I've been all over Kansas and I know what resources you have and you don't have anywhere near the amount of trees we have. Once you get south of the river in Missouri it's ALL trees.. |
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| We are trying to be self sufficient so we live off solar and also use a wood stove and cutt our own wood.
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | I want Michelle's coat to keep my butt warm. Check out the Rocket mass heater on Pinterest. Ugly but I see how it could be so toasty. I wonder if I could convert my stove some way so it would generate more. Look at the Power Pot ...If that was bigger WOW that would be awesome.. I would have heat and electricity for pennies. |
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | I want Michelle's coat to keep my butt warm. Check out the Rocket mass heater on Pinterest. Ugly but I see how it could be so toasty. I wonder if I could convert my stove some way so it would generate more. Look at the Power Pot ...If that was bigger WOW that would be awesome.. I would have heat and electricity for pennies. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | cow pie - 2014-02-27 8:46 PM
I want Michelle's coat to keep my butt warm. Check out the Rocket mass heater on Pinterest. Ugly but I see how it could be so toasty. I wonder if I could convert my stove some way so it would generate more. Look at the Power Pot ...If that was bigger WOW that would be awesome.. I would have heat and electricity for pennies.
If you have an indoor stove.. these things will help a lot... works on wood, coal and oil stoves. We've had one for years.
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Location: Colorado | CYA Ranch - 2014-02-27 8:52 AM Frodo - 2014-02-27 8:50 AM I just heard about this on FOX news last night. It appears the Obama administration in coordination with the EPA are banning the sale of wood burning stoves by 80% and may be after those who currently heat their homes with wood.........because suddenly it's a dangerous air pollutant. Many, especially in rural areas, turned to wood because of this administrations war on the coal industry. Probably because they can control the prices and flow of natural gas, propane and fuel oil but they can't control people chopping their own wood. Pathetic piece we have in Washington.
Ummm NO. The is nothing banning the sale of wood burning stoves. There is in Fact a proposed set of regulations from the EPA to reduce the pollutants. Much of which is caused by people not buring aged, dry wood.
This has actually happened before and although a few smaller stove manufacturers closed the rest stepped up and updated the new models.
Has nothing to do with controlling the price of fuel either.
AND btw..... proposed regulations leave each and every state to write laws that will apply to their residents. The sky is not falling, the President is not conspiring to freeze rural America out.
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | Stitch4k9 - 2014-02-27 8:59 PM CYA Ranch - 2014-02-27 8:52 AM Frodo - 2014-02-27 8:50 AM I just heard about this on FOX news last night. It appears the Obama administration in coordination with the EPA are banning the sale of wood burning stoves by 80% and may be after those who currently heat their homes with wood.........because suddenly it's a dangerous air pollutant. Many, especially in rural areas, turned to wood because of this administrations war on the coal industry. Probably because they can control the prices and flow of natural gas, propane and fuel oil but they can't control people chopping their own wood. Pathetic piece we have in Washington.
This has actually happened before and although a few smaller stove manufacturers closed the rest stepped up and updated the new models.
Has nothing to do with controlling the price of fuel either.
AND btw..... proposed regulations leave each and every state to write laws that will apply to their residents. The sky is not falling, the President is not conspiring to freeze rural America out.
karen
LOL.....how stupid of me to think any regulations coming out of this administration could possibly have a sinister motive! Our beloved president so loves this country that he would never do anything to make our lives more difficult.
Oh....darn. I forgot one of his comments regarding his "Cap and Trade" proposal: "Under my plan of a cap and trade, electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket...." - Barack Obama, 2008.
Obama isn't sinister. We just aren't capable of understanding his motives....he really is looking out for all of us. We should all line up to kiss his ass.
I have changed my mind. I think we need more safeguards like this imposed upon people by the enlightened progressive left. Lord knows that ever since man has been burning wood for heat, thousands of years ago, millions of people have suffocated and suffered from the ill effects on the climate and air quality. |
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| Stitch4k9 - 2014-02-27 8:59 PM
CYA Ranch - 2014-02-27 8:52 AM Frodo - 2014-02-27 8:50 AM I just heard about this on FOX news last night. It appears the Obama administration in coordination with the EPA are banning the sale of wood burning stoves by 80% and may be after those who currently heat their homes with wood.........because suddenly it's a dangerous air pollutant. Many, especially in rural areas, turned to wood because of this administrations war on the coal industry.   Probably because they can control the prices and flow of natural gas, propane and fuel oil but they can't control people chopping their own wood. Pathetic piece we have in Washington.
This has actually happened before and although a few smaller stove manufacturers closed the rest stepped up and updated the new models.
Has nothing to do with controlling the price of fuel either.
AND btw..... proposed regulations leave each and every state to write laws that will apply to their residents.  The sky is not falling, the President is not conspiring to freeze rural America out. Â
karen Â
Right Karen That's why the ever so fair EPA is having their public hearing in Boston Mass. THE most liberal state in the union. I don't think they are going to have a lot of people from rural areas there to B****. Geez you think they planed it that way. Oh that's right this President would never Lie or do anything the public doesn't want....or would he? |
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Location: West Tennessee | paysonw - 2014-02-27 6:19 PM crossspur - 2014-02-27 2:58 PM For those of you who live where you have those turbo windmills that run your power, how do they charge you for that? Is it a lot cheaper? I don't believe it is cheaper, you still have to have the capacity for when the wind isn't blowing. They are high maintenance and you have to build extra transmission lines. IMHO it is another feel good, government boondoggle!
Ok, so I"m not 100% positive about the vericity of this, but I read something today or yesterday that in some areas the wind farms are only running at half capacity because they generate too much energy which reduces what the electric company can charge. I think I just worded that the way I read it. Maybe the person I saw discussing it will weigh in here?
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| Lickety Split - 2014-02-27 10:23 AM
Well that is interesting! We would freeze to death if it were not for our wood stove.
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Exactly! How convenient to impose such a ban on a recent "shortage" and skyrocketing cost of propane! I think its a bs scheme to line their pockets. They want to regulate everything we do! |
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Location: I can see the end of the world from here! | Stitch4k9 - 2014-02-27 7:59 PM CYA Ranch - 2014-02-27 8:52 AM Frodo - 2014-02-27 8:50 AM I just heard about this on FOX news last night. It appears the Obama administration in coordination with the EPA are banning the sale of wood burning stoves by 80% and may be after those who currently heat their homes with wood.........because suddenly it's a dangerous air pollutant. Many, especially in rural areas, turned to wood because of this administrations war on the coal industry. Probably because they can control the prices and flow of natural gas, propane and fuel oil but they can't control people chopping their own wood. Pathetic piece we have in Washington.
This has actually happened before and although a few smaller stove manufacturers closed the rest stepped up and updated the new models.
Has nothing to do with controlling the price of fuel either.
AND btw..... proposed regulations leave each and every state to write laws that will apply to their residents. The sky is not falling, the President is not conspiring to freeze rural America out.
karen
This is not correct. The EPA does NOT allow states to make their own little rules...they have blanket regulations that apply 'equally' to everyone despite the application. The sky is only falling on the people who buy into the hype & bull of those who justify their jobs by perpetuating the non-issues. |
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| A little OT but I listened to Jesse Ventura on a talk radio show the other day, he said it cost him about $10,000 for solar panels and other items to go totally off the grid - I'm really starting to read up on this stuff. |
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| Yes... I can totally see how this makes sense. Let's ban woodstoves because of the polluntants.
Nevermind that chopping the deadfall and using it for heat is doing a service because it helps cut the potential fire hazard risk that deadfall creates.
I can see how a forest fire that burns thousands of acres would be SO MUCH kinder to our air than a few people heating with a woodstove.
Let's face it, this is also about control on rural America How many apartment buildings in the big city have woodstoves? Or houses? Unless they were built in the 1950's in the city before the lovely EPA got so much power. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | musikmaker - 2014-02-27 10:59 PM Stitch4k9 - 2014-02-27 7:59 PM CYA Ranch - 2014-02-27 8:52 AM Frodo - 2014-02-27 8:50 AM I just heard about this on FOX news last night. It appears the Obama administration in coordination with the EPA are banning the sale of wood burning stoves by 80% and may be after those who currently heat their homes with wood.........because suddenly it's a dangerous air pollutant. Many, especially in rural areas, turned to wood because of this administrations war on the coal industry. Probably because they can control the prices and flow of natural gas, propane and fuel oil but they can't control people chopping their own wood. Pathetic piece we have in Washington.
This has actually happened before and although a few smaller stove manufacturers closed the rest stepped up and updated the new models.
Has nothing to do with controlling the price of fuel either.
AND btw..... proposed regulations leave each and every state to write laws that will apply to their residents. The sky is not falling, the President is not conspiring to freeze rural America out.
karen
She's obviously never had to deal with the fallout of EPA regs and inspections herself. The states are free to impose STRICTER rules, but they can't actually change anything about EPA rules, and EPA trumps the state according to our illustrious federal government. |
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