FOOD Critics rail against NYC crackdown on coal, wood-fired ovens: 'Don't mess with a New Yorker's Pizza or Bagels'

Cacheman

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Just three months ago we were told the crackdown on gas stoves was just another 'right wing conspiracy theory', here we are again, us nutjob conspiracy theorists are proven correct again and than some....







Critics rail against NYC crackdown on coal, wood-fired ovens: 'Don't mess with a New Yorker's Pizza or Bagels'​


Danielle Wallace

5–6 minutes




Critics sounded off Monday against New York City's proposed crackdown on coal- and wood-fired ovens in the name of climate change.

"This is utter bs. It won’t make a difference to climate change," Elon Musk tweeted, reacting to the New York Post report that the New York City Department of Environmental Protection is proposing new rules that would require eateries – including the Big Apple's famous pizzerias and bagel shops – that use coal- and wood-fired ovens to reduce carbon emissions by 75%.

"You don’t mess with a New Yorker’s Pizza or Bagels. Period," tweeted Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a Republican who represents the county that borders the Queens borough of New York City.

"Here in Nassau your local pizza place will continue to be able to make your pie the same way they have been for decades," Blakeman wrote. "We have some of the best pizza in the world, and it’s going to stay that way!"

"Now the enviro crazies want to wreck New York pizza. Can’t we have a rebirth of common sense?" Jeff Clark tweeted to his more than 55,100 followers Monday.

"If there’s a single issue that could flip New York red it would be banning pizza ovens," Florida's Voice CEO Brendon Leslie commented to his nearly 130,000 Twitter followers.

Video also circulated online that showed activist Scott LoBaido confronted by a police officer Monday while LoBaido tossed slices of pizza over the gate to City Hall in protest of the proposal.

According to the Post, city officials said the plan would affect less than 100 restaurants citywide, but those that use coal- and wood-fired ovens installed before 2016 would be forced to buy expensive emission-control devices.

Paul Giannone, the owner of Paulie Gee’s in Brooklyn, told the Post that he has already shelled out $20,000 on a new air filtration system in anticipation of the city edict.

"It’s not just the expense of having it installed, it’s the maintenance. I got to pay somebody to do it, to go up there every couple of weeks and hose it down and, you know, do the maintenance," he reportedly said.

Other famous pizzerias that could be affected include Lombardi’s in Little Italy, Arturo’s in Soho, John’s of Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village, Patsy’s in Turtle Bay and the Upper West Side, and Grimaldi’s near the Brooklyn Bridge.

"All New Yorkers deserve to breathe healthy air and wood and coal-fired stoves are among the largest contributors of harmful pollutants in neighborhoods with poor air quality," DEP spokesman Ted Timbers said in a statement obtained by Fox News Digital Monday. "This common-sense rule, developed with restaurant and environmental justice groups, requires a professional review of whether installing emission controls is feasible."

Another pizza shop owner, whom the Post kept anonymous, told the Post that DEP officials are privately negotiating with some pizza restaurants on whether to grandfather in and exempt dozens of businesses from the mandate.

"This is an unfunded mandate, and it’s going to cost us a fortune, not to mention ruining the taste of the pizza, totally destroying the product," he said.

"If you f--- around with the temperature in the oven, you change the taste. That pipe, that chimney, it’s that size to create the perfect updraft, keeps the temp perfect, it’s an art as much as a science. You take away the char, the thing that makes the pizza taste great, you kill it," the business owner said. "And for what? You really think that you’re changing the environment with these eight or nine pizza ovens?"

You get what you voted for and in NYC we all know how you vote, there isn't any chance of vote fraud. Suck it up NYC!
 

Publius

TB Fanatic
Lately I see articles for banning wood stoves again because of carbon emissions and they are either very stupid or hungry for power over others.
Starting back in the late 1960s a few tried to do this and lost their case and brought it back up a number of times over the years and lost each time.
Wood burning stoves are carbon neutral it does not matter if its burnt or left laying in the forest to rot the effect is the same and it seems these power grabbers have a very hard time wrapping their minds around this fact.

Have to add! They are so worried about the few that do use wood stoves and they do not see that the majority of people today are to lazy to cut, split and stack it and allow it to sit for a year only to relocate again in the fall, it's to much like work or worse and then there is the complaints of dust and dirt and chips that comes with it.
 
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ChicagoMan74

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"If there’s a single issue that could flip New York red it would be banning pizza ovens," Florida's Voice CEO Brendon Leslie commented to his nearly 130,000 Twitter followers.
Keep your votes and your pizza...your pizza is overrated anyway.

Video also circulated online that showed activist Scott LoBaido confronted by a police officer Monday while LoBaido tossed slices of pizza over the gate to City Hall in protest of the proposal.

Having a food fight with city hall is gonna bring change right away moron.

Paul Giannone, the owner of Paulie Gee’s in Brooklyn, told the Post that he has already shelled out $20,000 on a new air filtration system in anticipation of the city edict.

An this is what you all are going to do after you get done bitching and whining about it. Go F--- yourself.

"It’s not just the expense of having it installed, it’s the maintenance. I got to pay somebody to do it, to go up there every couple of weeks and hose it down and, you know, do the maintenance," he reportedly said.

Oh you'll pay...just like the little bitch that you are.

You get what you voted for and in NYC we all know how you vote, there isn't any chance of vote fraud. Suck it up NYC!

Exactly this. And stay out of Florida and Texas; they're still nice places to live and visit; and Virgina and NC...they still have a chance. Move to Long Island or Jersey or something. Oh and go F--- yourself...but I repeat myself.
 

Dobbin

Faithful Steed
Have to add! They are so worried about the few that do use wood stoves and do not see that the majority of people today are to lazy to cut, split and stack it and allow it to sit for a year only to relocate again in the fall, it's to much like work or worse and then there is the complaints of dust and dirt and chips that comes with it.
Owner's cultural sensitive statement (horselaugh!)

Indian build small fire. Keep warm by strategically positioning himself over the fire and using blankets and covers to keep the heat in.

White build HUGE fire. Keep warm by cutting, splitting, drying, carrying CORDS of wood to make a fire too large to approach and actually keep warm by.

And my addenda: AOC keeps warm by pushing up the thermostat, claiming you need to cut back on YOUR emissions, and passing laws to compel that.

Ever wonder how many BTUs it takes to heat the houses of Congress?

Dobbin
 

Publius

TB Fanatic
Owner's cultural sensitive statement (horselaugh!)



And my addenda: AOC keeps warm by pushing up the thermostat, claiming you need to cut back on YOUR emissions, and passing laws to compel that.

Ever wonder how many BTUs it takes to heat the houses of Congress?

Dobbin

I have seen and told about people looking to beat the system and the idea to learn would be help someone they know cut wood and quit after two pickup truck loads and mind you telling them you need 8 to 10 truck loads for a winter that really scared them. The Oil Embargo days there was the ones right off saying I an't cutting no wood there was a lot of these folks.
 

Ravekid

Veteran Member
I have a wood-stove and do worry about future bans. It is only about a decade old in technology so it burns fairly clean. No smoke seen or smell once it gets up and running. Some models are even cleaner.

I wouldn’t live anywhere that could freeze without a back-up wood-stove. If I lived in say TN or GA, I might not go full size, but I’d defiantly but a small unit to try and keep a few rooms warm enough.
 
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