I can't help but notice that heating with wood allows one to keep warm without paying a tax and without being dependent on a government-regulated utility.

If they come after me I am going to claim that the log set itself on fire.

I was raised with wood heat and cooking, hand drawn well water, and no indoor toilet. We had no money for anything else. But that doesn't matter to a bureaucrat. It would have been better that we froze to death than a little wood smoke in the air.

One thing we haven't mentioned yet in the article is this insidious crony tag teaming-where extremist environmental groups "sue" the EPA for not going far enough with the regs. Then the case is always "settled" out of court-giving the environmental groups money to operate. This cozy relationship means the taxpayers pay to keep these environmental nazis in business. Congress should threaten to de-fund the EPA if they continue this practice. OF course they won't. and breaches like this are so plentiful which holes in the dam do you plug first?

first, the EPA has its head up its ass. After that, I could never see wood as anything more than supplemental. Granted, I am from Wisconsin where it takes a bit more than a few cords of wood to keep a home warm for a real winter, Also, my house on Juneau was originally coal heated, it even had a handy coal dropper lever that could be operated from the second floor master bedroom.. But, during renovations the quantity of coal heating remains found between the wall was pretty nasty. I had not thought that would be a big modern problem, but now in the Pacific Northwest we are in a home with less than adequate heating and even less than adequate insulation. So, we have been using the fireplace to supplement the BTU's that the furnace can come up with. Even that has made a bit of a annoying mess.. Given a choice I am a radiant heat under the clawfoot tub kind of guy. Still, I recognize that while I have grown up to not have to depend on wood for heat there are plenty of folk who really need that option and I would prefer that they dont freeze to death and that the best among them grow up to also not need wood for heat.

Wood burning stoves warm you 3 times.
1. When you chop or split the wood
2. When you stack a couple of cords to get you through the winter.
3. When you're sitting in front of it.

Now China has architects designing dooms to fight their pollution, but we can't allow wood burning stoves here in the U.S.

It may sound a bit harsh, but burning an EPA bureaucrat or two at the stake--with a wood-burning fire of course--has a certain appeal. That seems to be our only recourse against these toadying, small-minded, self-important, little tyrants.

Some states (or in our case, "Air Quality Control Districts") already have "no burn days", and they love it when the neighbors of such evil cellulose-incinerating miscreants turn them in for the appropriate givernment money grab and pssible re-education.

Our new home (as 98% of the businesses and homes up here) had all-wood heat - all of the stoves (and the house) were built before 1978, and as such, the rule was, until they were removed they were "grandfathered". When we had one of them replaced with a propane stove, the remover had to "disassemble" the old one to render it inoperable to comply with the Big Brother Nose-in-your-business law. (Amazing how easy it would be to reassemble it, and likely commit a class IV felony in the process... Probably should have tunred it in so the Elected Lackeys could "recycle" it to their own privileged homes to keep me from being "anti-social"...)

God forbid if someone opened, say, a steel mill or glass manufacturer or even a blacksmith forge here in the states... One, it takes work away from the far-eastern people's democratic republics, which is who we are supposed to be supporting before we "privileged Americcans", Two, the liberally-poisoned state governments would likely send the national guard in to shut it down, confiscate it, and turn it into something more 'politically acceptable", like a Shared Common Core/PETA Video Production Facility...

think about the industry. They can only sell pellet stoves. Wow.

Wonder how EPA plans on handling those pesky forest fires that are allowed to burn all that horrible wood? Remember, forest fires are critical for healthy forests! What a conundrum! If wood burning stoves in rural areas are so terrible how does one justify allowing forest fires to burn? Wonder if anyone has done a study of the amount of smoke particles produced by an average forest fire compares to all wood burning stoves say in the United States? I suspect one forest fire far exceeds all wood burning stoves combined.

Another reason why Michigan still has people that love the establishment in all parts of this country. End of the year winter season and people up hear cannot find wood and if they do try $300.00 a cord. Just a few weeks ago it sold for $50-$60.00 a cord.I truly believe in capitalism, but those who do not are taking advantage of those who really need it. Those who have run out that sell I have talked to say well will those who buy from them now will they buy again in the future. I have kept their numbers and will not forget. Just sayin'

Living in suburbia and tree farming on the side, we save about $5 every night when burning wood in cold weather. The woodstove is old, trustworthy and so are we.

Living in suburbia and tree farming on the side, we save about $5 every night when burning wood in cold weather. The woodstove is old, trustworthy and so are we.

It all started well over 100 years ago:
The Winter Chill Coming to Your Living Room-> http://remnantshighway.wordpress.com/201...

This is just part of the UN Agenda 21 process, get everyone into the inner city apartments where the government controls what heat you may have. Those using wood, represent freedom instead of control.
In Ohio, we don't use our fireplace, family allergies. However, when we cut down any of the trees on our wooded lot, we always have people take the wood who heat either their whole house, or their garage workshop with woodburning stoves.On the Navajo reservation,in the Four Corners area our Wast, we regularly have donated to buy such stoves for winter heating. There are a lot of areas that don't have natural gas lines, propane delivery to remote areas is not easy and there just is not electricity everywhere. The EPA does not care about the environment, or it would make weather control stations in the US, Russian and 20 other locations around the globe, including China and Scandinavia their focus. They are the ones heating the ionosphere and changing the jet stream.

Chinas main source of heating and cooking is coal. Even in large cities, workers can be seen carrying coal home in plastic bags exactly like those we are banning here. So how is the EPA going to regulate the massive output of particulates from China. Also, India uses charcoal as a primary heating and cooking fuel. Are we going to also regulate India? In emerging nations in Africa and South America, wood and coal are primary heating and cooking fuels. Are we going to regulate them too?

After the EPA completely takes freedoms away, they will issue reports about how much this draconian order has reduced worldwide particulate levels. We are being screwed and screwed badly by a group of radical environmentalists who are so sure of their cause that even Jesuite true-believers blush at the extreme nature of environmentalists belief.

Oh, a side point: EPA officials are not authorized to carry concealed in addition to being armed while working. What do EPA people need with guns? Why do they need to have concealed carry authorization like police? Does tyne EPA now have police powers?

Another problem with an executive branch organization that legislates.

Each time the EPA issues another reg, I am reminded of how anti-American they must be. Then I go out to do my day and see all the large SUVs and high end cars with "greenie" stickers on them. That's when I have to pull over and wipe the tears, from laughing so hard, from eyes so I can continue driving. What a bunch of hypocrites.

This reinforces the image I have of every American with a noose around the neck being slowly tightened until the only response is compliance or death.

What? A governmental entity that care less about exercising its own power than the actual welfare of the citizens that pay for its very existence? Say it ain't so! [/sarcasm]

This maybe an economic move. sell off the old stove for scrap metal and buy a new updated one.
That will help the economy. do you think that is what they are attempting?

Well, unless they go house to house how are they going to know who's burning wood? Bleep them. We'll burn what we want when we want !!

I have a "firewood forrest" outside my kitchen door and no one ever questions how much or where I burn the wood (which I cut myself) to heat my house in the winter (with no more than five nights below freezing) and an average daily high in the 40's).