Attention

The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent our advertisers

Tuesday, January 03, 2017

EPA to sub-freezing Alaska: Stop burning wood to keep warm

In state's interior, it can reach -50 degrees Fahrenheit in winter

(Federalist) In Jack London’s famous short story, “To Build A Fire,” a man freezes to death because he underestimates the cold in America’s far north and cannot build a proper fire. The unnamed man—a chechaquo, what Alaska natives call newcomers—is accompanied by a wolf-dog that knows the danger of the cold and is wholly indifferent to the fate of the man. “This man did not know cold. Possibly, all the generations of his ancestry had been ignorant of cold, of real cold, of cold 107 degrees below freezing point. But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge.”

If only the bureaucrats in Washington DC knew what the wolf-dog knew. But alas, now comes the federal government to tell the inhabitants of Alaska’s interior that, really, they should not be building fires to keep themselves warm during the winter. The New York Times reports the Environmental Protection Agency could soon declare the Alaskan cities of Fairbanks and North Pole, which have a combined population of about 100,000, in “serious” noncompliance of the Clean Air Act early next year.

Source

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds like the FTC forcing our Giant to change to Acme against the wishes of the local population . Let the locals decide local regulations.

Anonymous said...

ban, kill, destroy the EPA...the sooner the better. they are almost as bad a PETA.

Anonymous said...

To Build A Fire is a great story. There's much more to it than what's expressed in this post.

Anonymous said...

Go away EPA. If you dont like fire then live there for a year. You know walk a mile in their shoes.

Anonymous said...

16 days

Anonymous said...

They can't tax wood so they are against it.

Anonymous said...

Thanks to Obama Care....you gotta do > what you gotta do!!!

Anonymous said...

Hell , we be burning wood here too , not just in Alaska !!

The Damn Electric companys must have bought the Politicians
and can charge whatever they want...NO Regulation

We starving here everywhere in America , + Obama Plan killing America even more.........

Anonymous said...

Damn wood pellets gone up too high too , you can't win

If you had a stove that burned Poop , Poop would go up too

Anything you need to live, is CONTROLLED with Price Gouging