Burned Out Brains: San Fran Bans Natural Gas Furnaces, Water Heaters

San Francisco Bay Area regulators voted March 15 to eliminate the sale and installation of natural gas-powered furnaces and water heaters, supposedly to cut pollution. The ban starts in 2027 and will be implemented over eight years. It seems strangely fitting that this should’ve happened on the Ides of March; San Fran authorities seem to love to stab their citizens in the back with idiotic woke policies. Natural gas is a relatively clean power source and it is also reliable, unlike “green” energy. But why let reality interfere with ideology?

Ironically, however, “green” energy sources are often worse for the environment than natural gas. Windmills came under fire last year for the number of birds they’ve killed. Windmills or wind turbines were estimated to kill hundreds of thousands of birds yearly just in the US, based on 2013 and 2014 studies, and in recent months offshore wind development seems to be killingwhales. Solar panels also kill thousands of birds—these “climate-friendly” energy sources are certainly not friendly to wildlife. Solar panel production is also tied to toxic pollution; and, as of 2018, solar panels (which are difficult to recycle) were estimated to create 300 times more toxic waste than power plants create high-level nuclear waste.