Comments on: Connecticut must Ban Outdoor Wood Furnaces if People’s Health is to be Protected, By Nancy Alderman, EHHI http://environmentalheadlines.com/ct/2010/02/02/connecticut-must-ban-outdoor-wood-furnaces-if-peoples-health-is-to-be-protected-by-nancy-alderman-ehhi/ Links to all of today's environmental news headlines in Connecticut. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:08:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: EnviroWhacko http://environmentalheadlines.com/ct/2010/02/02/connecticut-must-ban-outdoor-wood-furnaces-if-peoples-health-is-to-be-protected-by-nancy-alderman-ehhi/comment-page-1/#comment-10249 EnviroWhacko Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:49:38 +0000 http://environmentalheadlines.com/ct/?p=28349#comment-10249 Since it is impossible to police the actual type of fuel burned in so-called outdoor "wood" furnaces, the only viable solution would be to outright ban them altogether. The product patent itself should be revoked also. There should never have been a patent issued for such a poorly-designed device. These problematic machines make Toyota's gas-petal problem look minor by comparison. (At least they are doing something about that.) I would suggest a letter-writing campaign to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, demanding that these unsafe, health-hazardous products be removed from the marketplace at the federal level. This is a regulatory issue, not a legislative one. <a href="http://www.cpsc.gov/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cpsc.gov/</a> Since it is impossible to police the actual type of fuel burned in so-called outdoor “wood” furnaces, the only viable solution would be to outright ban them altogether. The product patent itself should be revoked also. There should never have been a patent issued for such a poorly-designed device. These problematic machines make Toyota’s gas-petal problem look minor by comparison. (At least they are doing something about that.)

I would suggest a letter-writing campaign to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, demanding that these unsafe, health-hazardous products be removed from the marketplace at the federal level. This is a regulatory issue, not a legislative one.

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