WTF? EPA Wants To Regulate Backyard BBQing
By Brian Anderson, March 17, 2015.
The Environmental Protection Agency has always been a real pain in the ass to industry, progress, and working people everywhere. Under Obama, the unelected regulatory agency has been downright fascist in its efforts to reduce the quality of life for all Americans. Case and point: the EPA is looking at ways to regulate the backyard barbeque experience.
Fox News reports that the EPA is looking at the possibility of forcing backyard cooks to install grease traping systems as well as “catalytic” filters for grill emissions.
The EPA is funding a $15,000 University of California-Riverside study to look at the particulate emissions you breathe when grilling over an open flame. Along with the drip tray, the emission removal system includes the use of a “secondary air filtration system is composed of a single pipe duct system which contains a specialized metal filter, a metal fan blade, a drive shaft, and an accompanying power system with either a motorized or manual method,” according to study.
Think it can’t happen? Parts of California (Bay Area mostly) already regulate when people can cook outdoors, and there even more regulations being pushed.
Thankfully, BBQers have a champion in office. Missouri State Senator Eric Schmitt launched a campaign against excessive EPA regulations:
On Monday, State Senator Eric Schmitt (R) from St. Louis kicked off a #porksteakrebellion after he discovered the EPA is funding a study on propane grill emissions that suggest pit masters use a special tray to catch grease drippings and a “catalytic” filtration system to reduce air pollution, reports Fox News KTVI.
“The idea that the EPA wants to find their way into our back yards, where we’re congregating with our neighbors, having a good time, on the 4th of July, barbecuing pork steak or hamburgers, is ridiculous and it’s emblematic of agency that’s sort of out of control,” Schmitt said.
In case it isn’t obvious, Schmitt is a Republican, and he’s 100% right. It is beyond ridiculous that a government agency is looking into clamping down on backyard cooking. Is barbequing really a major source of air pollution? Of course it isn’t, so why the hell would Obama’s EPA even be looking at something like this? The quick answer is because he is a dick.
This is completely in line with the democrat agenda to control every aspect of our lives. It also seems to be part of a larger campaign to turn Americans into vegetarians and get us all to accept man-made global warming. The government recently recommended that we all but eliminate meat form our diets and as you know the lefties insist that beef production is a major contributor to climate change.
Yesterday I wrote that Obama was trying to stop public funding of sports stadiums because he hates things that guys like. This is completely true. Democrats despise anything that brings pleasure to men: Guns, hunting, cars, beer, sports, you name it. If guys like it, the democrats will try to regulate it, tax it or ban it. It’s not really a shock that they are now going after backyard barbequing because men like cooking over an open flame.
I reject this hybrid driving, no sports watching, disarmed civilian, steamed vegetable, alcohol-free liberal distopian future. I’m going to take my 1971 Dodge Charger down to the store, pick up some beer and steaks, fire up the grill, and celebrate American freedom while I watch hockey all night. And if the EPA shock troops come to shut me down, I’ll be ready for that too.
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