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Friday, February 21, 2014

Off Grid Attack: 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 stove must be scraped and cannot be resold.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

What about the good old fireplace?

Anonymous said...

people who own wood stoves dont have millions of dollars to bribe the epa to get them off the hook like exxon and the like.

Anonymous said...

818 and they don't have too, they can continue to use the stove they have. Do you people actually read the facts behind these issues or just run with whatever headline is thrown in front of you. Never mind, I know the answer.