There is no reason for this bill other than to allow government to intrude on our lives and make this a nanny state. The clean air argument does not hold water as the particulates from the certified wood burning stoves (foisted on us by and earlier legislature) fall quickly to the ground and is absorbed by plants. potash, nitrogen and carbon are all things that make plants grow. Too bad the environmentalists don't know this.
This is along the same lines as wind-powered turbines, a clean energy that was suppose to save us from our own folly of using electrical energy produced by hydroelectricity... It was perfect, it was clean and it was more expensive than hydro... However that proposal was quickly shot down due someone finding a dead bird at the base of the wind-turbine... Suddenly wind-turbines are bad and endanger wildlife... You cannot win with these environmental wackos...
One wonders what it would be like if the legislature actually put as much effort in solving our budget crisis by cutting spending and balancing the budget as they do in trying to regulate the populace and introducing new taxes...
Vote the Batrastards Out!
I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.
- John Wayne in the Shootist.