November 2, 2008
Obama Will Make America Energy Independent

By driving the economy into the ground, which will certainly reduce demand.  Which, I guess, is okay when you’ve got three fireplaces in your home.  No word on whether O! has high-efficiency inserts installed there.  I’m guessing no.

I bet he doesn’t know what that is.  A little deforestation in the service of the One is to be expected, after all.  Darleen has more.

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  1. Comment by memomachine on 11/2 @ 11:38 pm #

    Hmmmmm.

    1. Who says fireplaces and cast iron stoves will be excepted?

    2. Prime opportunities for neighbors to be rewarded for turning in neighbors.

  2. Comment by Darleen Click on 11/3 @ 12:10 am #

    Dan

    wood burning fireplaces are now banned in any new homes in California. Indoors or outdoors.

  3. Comment by Darleen Click on 11/3 @ 12:13 am #

    and those already with woodburning fireplaces can be turned in by their neighbors

    Effective today with the start of the burn season, the new Bay Area rule bars people from burning wood fires in fireplaces and wood stoves on bad air nights. The rule also bars excessive smoke from indoors fires any time of year.

    Offenders — to be identified largely by neighbors phoning in complaints — will get written warnings for the first offense. But subsequent violations can be punished with fines of hundreds or even thousands of dollars, said managers at the nine-county Bay Area Air Quality Management District.

  4. Comment by SarahW on 11/3 @ 12:37 am #

    I want a kakelugn.

  5. Comment by Dan Collins on 11/3 @ 12:45 am #

    Can’t have those wood stoves adding to all that wildfire in CA, can we, Darleen?

  6. Comment by sdferr on 11/3 @ 1:00 am #

    I sort of have to laugh. I’ve spent the better part of the day making charcoal out of Australian Pine limbs felled in the last storm we had here. And not with the more efficient indirect retort method either, just plain old cooking it in a can.

  7. Comment by SarahW on 11/3 @ 1:02 am #

    Kakelugns, use a modest bundle of sticks burned once a day. They are exceedingly clean and efficient. And pretty.

  8. Comment by PonyGuy on 11/3 @ 12:38 pm #

    Woodstoves have been illegal in Denver and Colorado springs for decades. Anywhere you can have thermal inversions that bring smoke back down to the ground they’re a bad idea, and the Bay Area is a bowl that traps pollution. Who in the Bay Area needs a wood stove anyway? Good insulation and a lightbulb would keep you warm.

  9. Comment by Dan Collins on 11/3 @ 1:20 pm #

    Ponyguy, read it again: they’re banned in any new construction anywhere in CA. Meanwhile, many thousands of acres of California woodlands burn yearly, in part because of bans on logging.

  10. Comment by Rob Crawford on 11/3 @ 5:02 pm #

    I like the bit about “excessive smoke”.

    I’d taunt the Californians for living in the nanny state, but since I’m no longer allowed to grill on my deck, we Ohioans have no room to talk.

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