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2019-09-08 -Land of the Free

Seattle Might Ban New Homes and Buildings From Using Natural Gas

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Posted by Fred 2019-09-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Morons.

Carbon emissions are not the problem. YOU ARE.

Posted by newc 2019-09-08 00:22|| 2019-09-08 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 The actual target is people. They want to ban people.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-09-08 03:48|| 2019-09-08 03:48|| Front Page Top

#3 ^Not all the people, just wrong kind of people.

Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2019-09-08 05:05|| 2019-09-08 05:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Major oil tankers have converted to natural gas. Ditto Morons.

Posted by Dale 2019-09-08 08:21|| 2019-09-08 08:21|| Front Page Top

#5 A cost efficient way to heat a home is banned in favor of an expensive one.

The poor will be hardest hit by this. Just as intended.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-09-08 09:10|| 2019-09-08 09:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh well, just more natural gas to use to generate electricity

Don’t these clowns know that natural gas is used to generate electricity and as such electricity is somewhat BTU negative meaning it takes more BTUs of gas to generate the electricity than the resulting energy can produce

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2019-09-08 09:56|| 2019-09-08 09:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Science and Math be Hard, SPOD.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-09-08 11:11|| 2019-09-08 11:11|| Front Page Top

#8 When the reason behind regulation is said to be green you know the real reason is to increase rent seeking.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-09-08 12:33|| 2019-09-08 12:33|| Front Page Top

#9 That will significantly reduce new home sales in favour of old homes — one way to ensure the gentrification of the slums, thus pricing the poor out their former homes.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-09-08 14:32|| 2019-09-08 14:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Moving from a 90% efficient heat source to a 30% efficient heat source, that also requires vast amounts of capital to generate, makes a lot of sense to complete scientific and economic illiterates.

Posted by Lumpy Gletle1053 2019-09-08 14:43|| 2019-09-08 14:43|| Front Page Top

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