(12-25-2022, 01:27 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(12-25-2022, 09:55 AM)americus 2.0 Wrote: So if using a wood stove is the only way I can afford to heat my house you're telling me I'm wrong? 

Then as the old saying goes, "if I'm wrong I don't want to be right!" Lol

One person's right to not freeze to death trumps their neighbors' rights to not breathe smog.
The only reason places like LA or SF can or should ban wood burning is because they have made multiple other heating options affordable.
Out in Africa or Haiti wood remains the only affordable option.  You don't see bans there.

Affordable is subjective. What's affordable to a single person, or a couple is not necessarily affordable to a family of 5.

We had a wood stove and electric heat in my house growing up and we had to supplement the electric heat with the wood stove. We knew people who had land and we were allowed to go take any dead or dying trees we needed for free. We went out with a chainsaw, the pickup truck and trailer in the spring and took what we needed and cut it all down to stove-sized pieces throughout the summer and fall. Which sucked by the way. No kid wants to cut and stack firewood in July when it's 200 degrees outside. Lol. But come winter time we were warm and thankful.

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(12-25-2022, 01:30 PM)WingerDinger Wrote: The way I see it, they're letting their constitutes defecate in the streets, then using wood to keep warm is the least of their worries.

That's the truth.

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