[Stoves] The Economist: Wood-burning stoves, the picturesque polluters

[Nikhil Desai]

This suggests a way forward - taxing wood stoves.  Wood-burners must "go
back out of fashion", meaning if not stoves, the people in whose name.

Nikhil

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/08/27/wood-burning-stoves-the-picturesque-polluters


Earlier this year ministers also suggested that new stoves should face much
stricter limits on emissions. Yet even the stoves that pass this new
standard, labelled as eco-friendly, emit three times more particles per
hour than a lorry. An article in the *British Medical Journal* called for a
“polluter-pays” tax on new stoves, to equal the associated health costs,
which it put at £889 ($1,150) per stove each year in inner London.

The biggest problem is enforcing the rules in the smoke-control zones, such
as central London. In theory, residents who use non-compliant stoves or
burn the wrong fuel face a £1,000 fine. But unclear guidelines and local
authorities’ weak powers of enforcement mean that compliance is largely
voluntary. The black smoke will continue to waft from the chimneys of
well-to-do homes until wood-burners go back out of fashion.
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