17 March 2014 (09:58 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Jumada l-Ula 1435/26 Esfand 1392/17 Ding-Mao 4712
The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports “All nine states in the New England and the Middle Atlantic Census divisions saw at least a 50% jump from 2005 to 2012 in the number of households that rely on wood as the main heating source.”
“In total, about 2.5 million households (2.1%) across the country use wood as the main fuel for home heating, up from 1.9 million households (1.7%) in 2005. An additional 9 million households (7.7%) use wood as a secondary heating fuel. This combination of main and secondary heating accounts for about 500 trillion British thermal units (Btu) of wood consumption per year in the residential sector, or about the same as propane consumption and slightly less than fuel oil consumption.”
The USEIA also stated that while low income families use the most wood (to avoid expensive propane, oil or natural gas) it’s actually higher income families who “are more likely to use wood”.
This data comes as the Obama regime, through the EPA, is trying to eventually ban the use of wood for heating altogether.
In December 2013, the state of Utah banned the use of wood burning stoves in five counties. It’s blamed on a trendy new pollutant called PM2.5. This trendy new term is the same term that’s been used to describe China’s growing pollution problem, but there PM2.5 is blamed on factories and cars.
PM2.5 is also being blamed for growing levels of pollution all over the world.
Now realize that the United States has imposed strict pollution control measures and devices on cars and factories for several decades (since 1974 for cars in California), yet pollution is still a problem? From the 1960s through the 1990s we never heard of PM2.5!
In January 2014, the U.S. Environment Protection Agency proposed an eventual ban on wood burning stoves and even charcoal burning BBQs. Without going into details, starting in 2015 such “devices” must burn 80% cleaner than they do now, and it gets ridiculously stricter over the next five to years, with the net effect of rendering wood burning stoves, heaters and charcoal BBQs illegal!
What the hell is PM2.5? PM stands for Particulate Matter. 2.5 is a measurement in micrometers, it is not a tangible substance. It could be 2.5 micrometers of household dust, or 2.5 micrometers of bullshit coming from the mouths of the Trilateral Commission, Bilderberger, left wing environmental NAZI nut jobs who’ve taken over your governments! (and “officially” you voted for most of them)
Studies done in the U.S. and U.K. (and published in the past couple of years) blame 13% of heart attacks on PM2.5! That’s right, for 13% of heart attack victims air pollution, not fatty foods, caused plaque build up in their arteries!
The UN World Health Organization says PM2.5 “….causes about 3% of mortality from cardiopulmonary disease, about 5% of mortality from cancer of the trachea, bronchus, and lung, and about 1% of mortality from acute respiratory infections in children…”
Pay attention, most of these studies do not identify a specific Particulate Matter, it’s any PM that’s 2.5 micrometers in size!
The idea you can put an end to PM that’s 2.5 micrometers in size is insane. Go back one thousand years, what did people use to heat their homes and cook food and boil water? Wood and coal and even dried bones and bovine crap! The whole of humanity around the world burning wood, coal, bones and crap, and you think air pollution is bad now?!
Here’s an conspiracy: This is all part of the U.S. gas station, I mean petroleum (oil, gas) industry’s evil plot to force you to buy their expensive products.
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