TRENTON, NJ (OPINION-EDITORIAL) – Wildfires raging across Canada are releasing hundreds of millions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere polluting the air across the northeastern portion of the North American continent. According to The Guardian, those fires have released a record level of carbon and harmful particulates into the atmosphere, which has caused air quality alerts as far south as the Mid-Atlantic states of the United States.
Back at home, politicians are more concerned about how much carbon your gas stoves, wood-burning stoves, and coal fire pizza ovens are emitting.
Between the governors of New York and New Jersey; and New York City Mayor Eric Adams, wood and coal fire pizza ovens, gas furnaces, gas stoves, wood burning stoves and even your car are being targeted for banning.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has already pledged to ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars by 2035, an unrealistic goal according to the automating industry.
While the wildfires rage and continue to pollute a large portion of the earth, governors like Phil Murphy think the answer to fighting climate change is to ban anything that emits carbon into the atmosphere.
Who can forget the absurd ‘cow farts’ agenda once pushed by fellow Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
But could coal-fired and wood-fired pizza be next for New Jersey? Murphy scoffed at the notion that he could be targeting your gas-powered stoves after his close ally New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced she would inflict punishing measures on pizzerias to spend tens of thousands of dollars to modify their existing systems, essentially killing the coal and wood fire pizza business for many small business owners.
With progressive Democrats, it seems as if they try to outdo each other with ridiculousness and absurdity.
Anything you can do, I can do better.
When the federal government announced a 2050 ban on gasoline-powered car sales, Murphy raised and called. He announced he could do it by 2035.
When New York started going after gas-powered stoves, Murphy’s administration targeted gas-powered boilers in large businesses and public buildings.
As wildfires rage, Governor Murphy announced he is coming for wood-fired stoves in New Jersey, so it’s not hard to imagine that in some liberal think tank somewhere in Trenton, plans are being hashed out to build a plan of attack on the deadly global warming causing pizza industry.
Keep in mind, all of this is happening as Phil Murphy jet-sets across the world in a private plane pushing his liberal agenda. When he’s not flying around the globe, he’s going from event to event in his new convoy of gas-guzzling Chevy Suburban and when he’s not at work, he’s at one of his two massive carbon-footprint homes in Middletown and Italy. Let’s not forget the governor’s mansions in Drumthwacket and Island Beach State Park.
If anyone in New Jersey needs to reduce their carbon footprint, it’s Phil Murphy, the guy in the statehouse, Phil Murphy. His carbon footprint is bigger than many small New Jersey municipalities.
Rumor is the governor’s home in Middletown even comes equipped with a gas-powered driveway warming system to melt snow in the winter. Again, just a rumor.
As the wildfires continue to rage, polluting the atmosphere, Murphy and his comrades in the Democrat party are looking for ways to blame you, the average citizen, for your impact on global warming.
They will take your cars, your stoves, your heaters, and your pizza, but here’s the catch. Don’t dare ask them to minimize their own carbon footprints. That’s now how this works.
“This year’s wildfire season is the worst on record in Canada, with some 76,000sq km (29,000sq miles) burning across eastern and western Canada,” the paper reported. “That is already greater than the combined area burned in 2016, 2019, 2020, and 2022, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. Hundreds of forest fires since early May have generated nearly 160m tonnes of carbon, the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) reported.”
The average New Jerseyean has an average carbon footprint of 14,000 pounds. That is just 0.000004375% of what has come out of the Canadian wildfires alone.
Here’s what we do know as fact. Once coal and wood-fired pizzas are banned in New Jersey and New York, good pizza will be a distant memory for Americans.