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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
EPA to outlaw many wood burning stoves
Our ever so helpful government has decided that your wood burning stove
is now a danger to the world. In another attempt to outlaw the off grid
lifestyle, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the same agency
that was recently caught using drones to spy on Americans, is now going
after home owners who use Wood Burning Stoves to heat their homes.
Shortly after the re-election of President Obama, the agency announced
new radical environmental regulations that threaten to effect people who
live off the grid. The EPA's new environmental regulations reduce the
amount of airborne fine-particle matter from 15 micrograms to 12
micrograms per cubic meter of air.
This means that most wood burning stoves would now fall into a class
that would deemed unacceptable under these new draconian measures. The
EPA has even launched a nifty new website called burn wise to try to sway public opinion.
On their site, while trying to convince people to
get rid of their old stoves and buy the new EPA-certified stoves, they
state that these older stoves must be scraped and cannot be resold...more
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