California Bans Natural Gas Furnaces, Water Heaters
The state of California is banning the sale of natural gas furnaces and water heaters by the year 2030 in the name of its anti-‘fossil fuel’ green energy agenda.
On Friday, the California Air Resources Board voted to enact the policy, which will phase out sales of gas heaters and furnaces in favor of electric ones in purported efforts to combat ‘climate change’.
Environmental advocate Leah Louis Prescott claimed the move would eventually lead to cleaner air for Californians by reducing emissions, pollution and smog.
“Together furnaces and water heaters typically that run on gas account for 90 percent of gas use in the average California household. So just eliminating these two sources of pollution is going to be a big win for our air quality and our health as well as for addressing climate change,” Prescott stated, according to Fox 5 San Diego.
“We’re really hopeful that this is the beginning of a domino effect and other states will follow California’s lead,” she said, adding, “I do think a lot more states are going to be following in California’s footsteps and looking at this as an opportunity to reduce the pollution in our homes and businesses.”
The radical move comes amid a slate of other carbon-cutting “green” policies, with the state’s Air Resource Board announcing last month it aimed to ban the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles incrementally over the coming years, with a goal of 100 percent of new vehicles sold to be electric by 2035.
Politicians of a certain political leaning in the Golden State also earlier this year enacted a ban on “small off-road engines,” referring to motors in gasoline-powered lawn mowers and leaf blowers, with a goal of eliminating gas-powered lawn equipment sales after 2024.
A proposal floated earlier this week by the Air Resources Board also wants to phase out semi-trucks that run on diesel by 2040.
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles City Council passed a resolution last May banning gas appliances from being installed in new homes and businesses, and instead requiring electric stoves, clothes dryers, furnaces and water heaters.
As admitted by Bloomberg News, California’s latest policy affecting furnaces and water heaters will have little to no effect on the state’s carbon output.
“Since California still gets about 40 percent of its power from fossil fuels, the transition won’t eliminate carbon emissions,” Bloomberg reports.
And California will never “eliminate carbon emissions” unless the state plans to run 100 percent fully on unreliable wind, solar, or water power, each of which carry various other risks to the environment.
Just where does the Air Resources Board think the state will produce the energy to power electric lawn mowers, stoves, water heaters and cars?
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T. C. Clark
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Lawsuits against this ban and the ban against vehicle carbon fuels are needed now. It cannot be proven that CO2 s causing any climate warming.
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MattH
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Hi T.C.
Next year I am hoping that through PSI we can develop a template for a legal challenge.
The best vehicle would be in support of the farming lobby as most Western countries have farming federations with the financial clout to mount a legal challenge.
It would be an international movement where if there is a legal failure in one country the next country’s challenge would evolve and strengthen the legal argument and science presentation on the fulcrum of judicial denial.
Now that the fruit-loose commenters are banned and even the grammar guidance tool John has introduced has made this concept more realistic.
The Tim Ball initiative. Let’s finish the Job.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi MattH and TC,
TC is correct: “It cannot be proven that CO2 s causing any climate warming.” But it can be proven that the idea (theory) of the Greenhouse Effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide is absolutely wrong by common observations (measurements) Just as Galileo Galilei, in 1632, explained in a book how his observations, aided with a telescope, absolutely proved that the idea, of Aristotle and of the Pope, that the Earth Stood Still was absolutely wrong. And I believe (read) that he did not convince the Pope of 1632 of this TRUTH. But TODAY we all know, I believe, that the Earth DOES NOT STANDSTILL.
For more than a century the idea known as the Greenhouse Effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide (GHE) has been accepted by many scientific authorities and PSI was founded to refute this generally accepted GHE theory. Which after about a decade of arguments and debates still hasn’t been accepted to have been PROVEN to be ABSOLUTELY WRONG.
I have not needed to make any observations (measurements), as Galileo did, as I point to the observed fact that the air temperatures has never been measured to be less than the air’s dew point temperatures measured at the same place and time and cite that the prediction of the GHE is that the Earth’s air temperatures would be about 37C (58F) less if there were no carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere.
Do I really need to explain that the air’s dew point temperature has nothing to do with the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide? Do we have to wait centuries to accept there is NO GHE OF ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE???
Have a good day, Jerry
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Jerry Krause
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Hi MattH and C.D.,
Please stick with me as I try to remind you of what you already know but maybe do not yet see it. Just as I did not yet see what was plainly before my senses as I had experiences during these past 80 years or so.
As Matt knows I like quotes because they often are wisdom what other people have seen (sensed).
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” “The only source of knowledge is experience.” Does it matter who stated these quotes? I have been blessed with the interest of reading what other’s have written. Thus, I have not only my experiences but also their experiences.
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” For a long time I did not understand this quote because I had not yet looked up the definition of “deceptive”. When I looked its definition I saw it was stating the same thing as my quote, “The most obvious is most difficult to see.”, which is based upon many, many of my experiences.
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence, it biases the judgment.” “The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.” “Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable must be the truth.” These quotes were written by the man who founded FORENSIC SCIENCE by writing entertaining, fictional mystery stories.
To keep this comment brief, I stop here to see if you two are still with me.
Have a good day, Jerry
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Boris Badenov
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The morons, and they are morons, in Sacramento Calif. and the moronic Governor Newsom think that electricity comes from the wall plug in unlimited quantities. Well except for when everyone is home and they want to cook, cool their homes, and plug in their EV’s when we have a few hot days. Now the fools want to add electric furnaces, electric water heaters, electric stoves, without any infrastructure to increase our electricity supply. Besides the farce of solar and wind. There is a reason people are fleeing this state, the main one are the Leftists.
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aaron
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they are NOT morons, they know full well what they are doing, it is obvious they do not work for the people
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