It seems that even wood isn’t green or renewable enough anymore. The EPA has recently banned the production and sale of 80 percent of America’s current wood-burning stoves, the oldest heating method known to mankind and mainstay of rural homes and many of our nation’s poorest residents. The agency’s stringent one-size-fits-all rules apply equally to heavily air-polluted cities and far cleaner plus typically colder off-grid wilderness areas such as large regions of Alaska and the American West.
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Surely this story is from the Onion?
Then again, when you can apply water rates to rainwater....
Only one step away from taxing air...
The stupid- and ignorant-masses have NO ONE to blame but themselves for the shit getting so out-of-hand as it has. This is an effort to bring/force people into cities and larger-and-larger towns, just as what is done to herd-animals to make it easier to control them for the purposes of the owner/controller.
This is such a black-and-white issue that it is frankly WHOLLY INEXCUSABLE that this would be allowed to stand, but I have come to expect nothing less from far too many people who have made the conscious decision to remain willfully-ignorant.
Lindsey
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