THIS IS LONG SO BEAR WITH ME….. KEEP READING….
So I read about the war on coal for years. I thought, ‘gee that’s really too stupid for words, OF COURSE, we can make it cleaner’.
I watched WV and eastern KY collapse into what is now utter, and hopeless depression, sort of what KSA will be on the day the oil runs out, except we simply PAUPERIZED all those folks on purpose.
I saw but did not hear the bell tolling. I hear it now. I hear a voice in my head which says “KAFKA”
Wood Burning Restrictions Could Burden Maine
The commissioner of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection says proposed restrictions on burning wood are a concern for Mainers.
Commissioner Patricia Aho says stricter emission requirements outlined in a draft rule by the Environmental Protection Administration could be prohibitively expensive in a state that relies on wood for heating.
In a public hearing Wednesday in Boston, she said the draft rule did not include all types of wood stoves and placed the burden of compliance on the shoulders of an aging Maine population. She noted that many residents burn wood because it is less expensive than heating oil.
The draft rule is the first time the EPA has update residential wood heating standards since 1988. It is set to become law in 2015.
Now let me explain something, I don’t KNOW anyone who doesn’t have a wood stove. I don’t KNOW anyone who doesn’t use their wood stove extensively. I also am here to tell you the VAST, as in +70%, of the users depend on that heat for 90% of their heat in a winter heating season which runs from some time in October to some time late March-April.
This is ONE of our two:
In Manchester NH we had oil-hot water heat. The season there is about 30 days shorter. To keep the heat at 66-68 during hours people were home and 62 at night,we used one tank of 275 gallon of heating oil per 3 weeks. 24 weeks, 8 tanks. ~$3.69/gallon =$8,188. Add another tank here AT A MINIMUM, $9,130.
I used less than 3 cords of wood so far, and I will probably finish using another 1/2 cord. TOP PRICE FOR GREEN WOOD (we age 1 season ahead) $220 delivered per cord. Call it 4 cords a year. $880.
Less than 10% of the cost of other fuel.
And we generally keep the heat at 72-75 OR MORE, easily and do so when it was as it is today, -11 at 5:30 AM, and -7 now.
This proposed rule will be ignored in Maine (and ALL across the northern rural tier in the USA, I ASSURE YOU), instantly making criminals out of millions of Americans who will violate the EPA, executive branch imposed authoritarian FOOLISHNESS with GLEE and manifest disgust.
KAFKA.
All not compulsory will be forbidden.
Nor this week is this the only example.
Connecticut, after the tragedy at Sandy Hook passed legislation making large magazine weapons illegal and set a date certain to turn in those weapons.
GUESS WHAT HAPPENED?
The data has come and gone and less than 15% of owners have complied with the legislation (at least this one was passed by representatives), and now … legislators are wondering ALOUD IN THE NEWS what it means when 85% of the people have no respect for their laws?
Nor is THAT the end …
Cop tells student filming him: ‘You just lost your free speech rights!’
A chilling video of Maryland police silencing an innocent student who was recording the arrests of two other people has civil libertarians outraged.
The arrests were made at night on the streets of Towson, Maryland. A University of Maryland-Baltimore County student who witnessed the arrests decided to record them using his cell phone. The student, 21-year-old Sergio Gutierrez, was soon approached by officers who objected — wrongly — to his actions.
Gutierrez repeatedly told the officers that he knew he had the right to film them, but the cops were prepared to use any excuse to shut him down. First they told him that he was hampering their investigation, even though he was standing well enough away while the arrests were being made.
Still, the student maintained that he was in the right.
“I am allowed to film,” said Gutierrez.
The cops told him that he was diverting their attention and that he had to leave. When Gutierrez persisted, they told him that he would be arrested if he did not stop recording.
“I thought I had freedom of speech here,” he said.
The cop’s answer? “You don’t. You just lost it. Walk away and keep your mouth shut.”
Police shoved Gutierrez, told him to “shut your fucking mouth,” and eventually forced him to leave the area.
Many of the people who watched the video were disturbed by the officers’ behavior. So too was the Baltimore County police department, which has launched an investigation,
according to WBALTV-11.
Gutierrez told local news that he was glad he recorded the incident. Police may have acted even worse if they knew the camera was off, he said.
The govt at all levels HAS REACHED the point at which it must be restrained in every conceivable way.
