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Does firewood help drive up health costs and premiums?

Our heatlh care costs are sprialing out of control, yet we only try to deal with dietary habits, exercise, among others while leaving out other potential major causes of our health cost issues like firewood, loose PCV hose connections (smog check stations), and pesticides for instance. I had asked questions about firewood here at Yahoo! answer sites recently and I received flames from readers everywhere so fierce that they seem to be willing to die for it... There is already solar technology that can give exactly same type of comfortable heat as firewood stoves can minus air polllution .. Firewood smoke is by far the worst air pollutant known around worse than even coal fired powerplants and cigarette smoking. Pesticides is a very nasty air pollutant as well. I hereby welcome all the flames I can get and I am longing for support as well. We need to unite and combat the gross ignorance or malicious intent with using firewood for deliberative financial gains like helping hospitals and health care centers with cash flows!! Local communities are very keen about local hospitals and their abilities to keep as many rooms staffed as possible.. Firewood is a great prime agent for keeping sick patients coming into hospitals.. many peopel are bohtered by firewood smoke and are often unable to funciton normally as they develop respiratory and mental irritrations . Some neighbors use firewood everyday while others just occassionally.., yet the air resource boards view all as the same without any regard to the unfortunate neighbors having to tolerate daily firewood users.. There is so much injustice about firewood among other terrbile health threats that keep bombarding some of us on a daily basisi.. The experts and the authorities that deal with clean air need to understand that there is so much unfiarness about air pollutin controls... I urge you to join me to fight for our rights to breath normal ambient air and to stop nearby culprits from thinking that they can keep harming you without any consquences... They got to pay for it..

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  • 9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Whats the matter didn't get to hug a tree today? Sorry your premise is incorrect, solar panels don't work if they are covered in snow. Last time my oil tank was filled it cost me almost $700.00. That's real money. In New England we have lost power 2X this year already. My wood stove (primary means of heat in my home) kept us warm and able to eat hot food. Is it pollution free? Nope, give me a better choice for New England and I will listen.

    Source(s): Heat my home all winter with wood.
  • wizjp
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    uh...my neighbors use wood to HEAT their homes. They would laugh at me, you and the EPA; then set fire to my house.

    Reasonable is the key word here.

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