San Francisco Bay Area Bans Gas Furnaces and Water Heaters

[Anti Federalist]

Slaves have "rules" and "regulators".



San Francisco Bay Area Bans Gas Furnaces and Water Heaters

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2...bay-area-bans-gas-furnaces-and-water-heaters/

JOEL B. POLLAK 16 Mar 2023

Regulators in the San Francisco Bay Area voted Wednesday to eliminate the sale and installation of natural gas-powered furnaces and water heaters over eight years beginning in 2027, ostensibly to limit air pollution.

The vote was the latest step taken by left-wing jurisdictions against natural gas — a convenient and relatively clean-burning source of fuel.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported (original links):

Bay Area regulators voted Wednesday to adopt rules to phase out the sale and installation of natural-gas furnaces and water heaters over the next eight years, one of the most ambitious plans in the country to replace gas appliances with electric alternatives.

The rules, approved by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, are meant to reduce air pollution from some of the worst home-appliance offenders. The main pollutants targeted are nitrogen oxides, or NOx, which can cause acid rain and smog as well as increase risk for asthma and other respiratory diseases.

People will be able to repair their gas appliances if they break — but the rules take effect when existing gas-powered furnaces or water heaters no longer work and need to be replaced. New construction will also be required to have zero-NOx — effectively, electric — furnaces and water heaters.

The new policy does not affect gas stoves, but follows a 2020 decision by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to ban the installation of natural gas lines in new buildings. It also comes just weeks after a controversy over a proposal by the Biden administration to consider banning the sale of new gas stoves.

Democrats oppose natural gas, even though its adoption has allowed the U.S. to produce fewer carbon dioxide emissions while growing its economy, because it is still a fossil fuel and is often extracted through fracking.

Elsewhere in Los Angeles, the “Green New Deal” proposed by then-Mayor Eric Garcetti (confirmed Wednesday as U.S. Ambassador to India) seeks to phase out natural gas power plants, despite possible electricity shortages.

 

[Anti Federalist]

I'd say "good" they deserve it.

But the assholes responsible won't stick around and live under the tyranny they created, they are too busy fanning out across the country to wreck everywhere else.

Just yesterday, had a local town vote, as we do every March.

Spending and so on...this town, for over a century, was a "conservative" stronghold.

Over the course of the past five years, we have been overrun.

Every spending bill was approved, every property rights bill was voted down, and a ballot measure petitioned by some leftist lesbian from San Francisco that moved here a couple years ago, that prohibits the town from removing queeer pornography and propaganda from the town and school libraries, was on the ballot.

It passed with flying colors.

 

[tod evans]

I'd say "good" they deserve it.

But the assholes responsible won't stick around and live under the tyranny they created, they are too busy fanning out across the country to wreck everywhere else.

Just yesterday, had a local town vote, as we do every March.

Spending and so on...this town, for over a century, was a "conservative" stronghold.

Over the course of the past five years, we have been overrun.

Every spending bill was approved, every property rights bill was voted down, and a ballot measure petitioned by some leftist lesbian from San Francisco that moved here a couple years ago, that prohibits the town from removing queeer pornography and propaganda from the town and school libraries, was on the ballot.

It passed with flying colors.

Equality for all!

You MUST accept them and their ways or you'll be in violation of untold federal statutes that'll end your life in the crossbar hotel.

Smile comrade you're on candid camera.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Equality for all!

You MUST accept them and their ways or you'll be in violation of untold federal statutes that'll end your life in the crossbar hotel.

Smile comrade you're on candid camera.

I never wanted to leave here, but it looks like that choice is being taken away from me.

 

[Anti Globalist]

Guess this means the government is going to go after water heaters next.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Guess this means the government is going to go after water heaters next.

Too late, already happening.

New construction will also be required to have zero-NOx — effectively, electric — furnaces and water heaters.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

...The new policy does not affect gas stoves, but follows a 2020 decision by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to ban the installation of natural gas lines in new buildings. It also comes just weeks after a controversy over a proposal by the Biden administration to consider banning the sale of new gas stoves.
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It always starts in California, and spreads like cancer.

 

[CaptUSA]

It always starts in California, and spreads like cancer.

Yep. In my position, I get to read a ton of proposed state legislation before the bills get introduced. Maryland and New Jersey legislators keep writing new bills, but they are still being tweaked. Both states have created working groups to "study" these policies. I get to participate in those, too. But the studies couldn't be more flawed. They start with their "solutions" then craft complicated and sneaky ways to "justify" them. DC and NYC are doing this, too. I'm sure it's happening in every liberal enclave.

If you have never been on a call with the environmental lobby when they talk to an Environmental Protection agency, I don't suggest it. Your mind will be blown by the panic and moral righteousness. To quote Russell Brand, it's "propagandist nut-crackery!"