European bar owners actually have the audacity to try to keep their customers warm when it is cool outside. The enviro-mafia says that is going to kill the planet and should be banned.
“Patio heaters are scandalous because they are burning fossil fuels in the open sky, so producing vast quantities of CO2 with very little heat benefit,” said European parliamentarian Fiona Hall, who wrote the report criticizing the pace of energy reforms in Europe.
“We urge the Commission to set a timetable for completely taking off the market some appliances that are intrinsically inefficient, such as patio heaters,” she added.
The report will not lead directly to legislation, but it seeks to guide the European Commission on parliamentarians’ priorities.
Read that last sentence again and repeat after me: “Yeah…right.” As the whole of Euprope leans more and more to the left, this will most certainly become law before long. And the bar owners will have a fit.
Any ban would be fiercely opposed by UK pub owners, whose businesses suffered after a smoking ban last year and are now struggling with weakening consumer spending and rising costs.
The heaters are also popular in many other European countries.
“It’s ironic this comes at a time when we’ve all invested heavily in slightly heated areas after the government banned smoking,” said Giles Thorley, Chief Executive of Britain’s biggest pubs owner Punch Taverns, which has around 8,400 venues.
These guys are screwed. They are fighting the anti-smoking lobby and the enviro-mafia at the same time. Say goodbye to your outdoor heaters. Which is kind of ironic, because, if the alarmists are right, the bar owners really wouldn’t need the heaters after a while. The Earth would be so warm, they could do without them.
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