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The EPA Takes An Ax To Self-Sufficiency: Most Wood Burning Stoves Will Soon Be Illegal
Daisy Luther
Activist Post
When you think of that little dream homestead in the woods, what does it include? Probably a well and septic system, a little stream bubbling nearby, a chicken coop, a sunroom for winter growing, and a cozy fire to curl up next to.
When my daughter and I spent a year living in a cabin in the Northwoods of Canada, our wood stove was our lifeline. It was the only source of heat in a place that reached -42 degrees. It was the only way we could cook when our power went out during snow and ice storms (as it did frequently). It was the cozy center of our home, and we survived for an entire frigid winter for less than $800. After that experience I vowed never to live in a home without a wood stove.
If the EPA has its way, however, heating your home self-sufficiently with wood could soon become illegal – or at the very least, insanely expensive.
Off Grid Survival reports:
Shortly after the re-election of President Obama, the agency announced new radical environmental regulations that threaten to affect 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 scrapped and cannot be resold.
From the EPA Site:
The local air pollution agency says I can’t sell my old wood stove to help pay for an EPA-certified wood stove. Why is that?
Replacing an older stove with a cleaner-burning stove will not improve air quality if the older stove is reused somewhere else. For this reason, wood stove change out programs usually require older stoves to be destroyed and recycled as scrap metal, or rendered inoperable. (source)
One of the easiest ways for the government to force this issue is through homeowner’s insurance policies. If you have a mortgage, you have absolutely no option but to carry homeowner’s insurance. Even if you own you homestead outright, most people consider insuring their homes and property to be a vital safety net. When your policy comes up for annual renewal, the insurance company can require an inspection of your home. At that time, compliance can easily be forced by either charging insanely high rates or through the cancellation of the policies of those who have “outdated” wood stoves.
An Attack on Self-Sufficient Living
The ability to heat your home off-grid is a major part of most preparedness plans. Heating with wood is the number one way to do this. Much like our food supplies, the ability to keep ourselves warm and healthy and the ability to cook without being connected to the grid are vital to our freedom.
Those of us who live this lifestyle are constantly targeted. In many places it’s illegal to collect rainwater. Growing food in your front yard instead of flowers is all but outlawed. Sellers of raw milk have their farms raided by SWAT teams as though they’re running a meth lab instead of a dairy. We are being Codex Alimentarius-ed and Agenda 21-ed right into slavery and the government and its agencies try to make it appear that they are “saving” us.
We, the self-sufficient, by our very nature, are a threat to this insidiously spreading control. Our self-sufficiency means that we won’t be forced to be subjugated, tagged, chipped, and inventoried like our less prepared friends and neighbors. We won’t have to cave in order to survive. We can eat, stay warm, and stay off the radar. And this is a threat because we can withstand the assaults on our freedom. We don’t need the government’s benevolence to survive. Those of us who don’t need the government are the last hold-outs of liberty in a country that has strayed far from it’s freedom-loving origins.
The “Credibility” of the EPA
Don’t be fooled by environmental friendliness or the warm and fuzzy green words. The EPA is just another tool of subjugation. Their stamp of approval carries the same “credibility” as that of USDA or FDA approval. The Environmental Protection Agency, that bastion of clean air and fertile land, wants you to believe that they are taking steps to save us all.
You know, the same folks who upped the legal levels of glyphosate for their friends at Monsanto, even though the herbicide has been proven to cause toxicity and death. The same agency that responded quickly when radiation from the Fukushima disaster reached dangerous levels on the shores of California by closing down 8 of their 18 radiation-testing facilities in California and increasing the “safe amounts” of radiation that we can absorb.
The EPA (or as I like to call it, the Environmental Deception Agency) tends to find things to be highly threatening to the environment only when those things allow us to be non-reliant on big business.
One controversy after another can be attributed to the EPA, an agency charged with protecting the air we breathe, the soil in which we grow our food and the water that we drink. At the bottom of each of those controversies can be found ties to the conspiracies of the big businesses that really run the country. Decisions are being auctioned off to industry lobbyists with the most money and influence.
Environmental protection is only the rule of thumb if it goes along with Agenda 21 – the EPA is all over the green agenda in cases that benefit the redistribution of wealth, but the agency completely ignores blatant crimes against the earth if it involves fracking for the benefit of a natural gas company or poisoning the soil and groundwater for the benefit of a biotech monolith.
Daisy Luther is a freelance writer and editor. Her website, The Organic Prepper, where this article first appeared, offers information on healthy prepping, including premium nutritional choices, general wellness and non-tech solutions. You can follow Daisy on Facebook and Twitter, and you can email her at [email protected]
Source: http://www.activistpost.com/2013/09/the-epa-takes-ax-to-self-sufficiency.html
The Environmental Police Authority.
Mine was a simple brick fireplace, a big black hole in the wall surrounded with family photos and mementos. The fireplace was incredibly inefficient – every time a fire was lit the only part of the room that received heat was the first 4 feet in front of it. Worse, the fire would suck the heat in the rest of the house up the chimney overnight when the fire died down – totally inefficient and very smoky inside the house as well.
Then I upgraded to a new epa certified fireplace insert. It was professionally installed, although it isn’t that difficult, very messy, but not difficult. Anyway, it had a special stainless steel liner that was fitted inside our fireplace chimney and an enclosed metal box to heat the house. Now, no longer is my old fireplace an inefficient, smoky, eyesore. Now, it’s a workable, useable, and best of efficient heat source, and it looks great too.
If I lived in the country with only a few neighbors and I used a wood stove every night, a new EPA certified stove would be a bother to install if it was suddenly thrust upon me as a law. But, if I already had a wood burning stove, would replace it when the time came for a new one. But, since I live in a small town, this is a must purchase/replace/upgrade if one plans to have more than a once or twice a year fire.
As far as the government mandates, I appreciate many government mandated programs such as mufflers and catalytic converters on cars and trucks, Diesel engines that don’t smoke, better fuel economy, and stricter requirements for industrial emissions, I just wish it was world-wide, if Mexico requires no vehicle emission testing at all, then the EPA should be forcing all trucks, all cars, all industry visiting the USA or near a USA border to be safe too. If you live in Mexico and want to come over to the USA and shop, fine, come on over as long as you have a vehicle that passes the USA government mandated restrictions which are imposed on the rest of the citizens of the USA. If this is a hardship for you, then don’t come.
The EPA is unconstitutional agency. It is not part of a representative govt. All of the emission stuff is a big scam. Your car would use less fuel without all of the crap on the engine thus less polution and easier to repair. As for greenhouse gasses, this is another unconstitutional scam. Carbon dioxide is at extreme low overall on the planet and plants need it like you need oxygen. Donn’t believe all the bs the govt scientists tell you. As for efficiency of fireplaces , it depends on design and location and flue. Same with wood burning stoves. I can pack wood in both and have embers still hot in the morning. My fireplace warms the whole house and cost? My labor to cut wood. Winter heat bill? NADA, zilch. I can even cook in it. Screw the UNCONSTITUTIONAL govt. 99% of the fed govt is guilty of treason. They are sold out and under the control of globalist elitist pig tyrants. I don’t need, nor want the govt to do anything for me, nor to me except leave me alone and stay out of mt life and off of my property.
Absolutely correct Patrick, It is regulation without representation. It is not regulated . It doles out regulations with no recourse..no judge, no jury, no lawyer, not voted on by representatives, no recourse, no input from the constituents, cannot be overruled by an attorney general, or governor… a free standing tyrannical entity. And this entity is filled with liberal/communist/activist/radicals who like nothing better than to attack conservatives . Look up epa kills feral pigs in michigan, they devastated this mans farm.Another guy I know near a local lake fined $25,000 for removing a stump. Egregious…..
I feel the same way about the government leaving me and mine alone. All’s I can say about that is HAVE YOUR GUN READY.
another idiotic law, just to give them more control, and of course, cost us a LOT OF MONEY, so, for the ppl who cant afford a new stove, what are we supposed to do? freeze? id really like this gov to get its nose out of our buisness, they want to control more and more, and no matter how much they get, they want more, theyr never satisfied, m getting tired of it myself, im getting a used wood stove, and the e p a can take a flying %$#@ at a rolling donut (hypocrits) we might as well be living in china
How many hundred wood stoves does it require to equal the pollution created by A.F. 1 for 1 hour air time?Just more of the Agenda 21 initiative coming into play.
three words “rocket mass heater” : )
Boxed, sounds like a paid shill.
Just say’n.
Employment Prevention Agency
They are not our friend – designed to control the masses along with Agenda21
google : Smart meters – has this issue hit your radar screen?