Bloomberg Will Boldly Push To Eliminate NYC Dirtiest Fuel Oil Use By . . . 2030

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All New York City buildings must stop using the nastiest types of fuel oil by 2030, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday.

One percent of the buildings in the Big Apple create 86 percent of the city’s soot pollution – more than all vehicles on the road - because they burn an out-dated low quality fuel (known as No. 6 and No. 4 heating oil), the mayor said. The polluting buildings, said the mayor, include “200 public schools,” which the city will convert to cleaner fuels.

The new regulations, “will do more than congestion pricing” to clean up the air, the mayor said, referring to his rejected proposal to charge drivers entering Manhattan.

But Bloomberg appeared to still have hope for resurrecting congestion pricing, which was squashed by Albany politicians fearful of the wrath of outer-borough voters. “The problems persist and we still have to do something about it,” he said. Bloomberg’s Earth Day Eve speech was in conjunction with his annual progress report on “PlaNYC,” a project aimed at preparing the city for a million new residents, ameliorating climate change and improve quality of life while fortifying the economy.

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http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/bloomberg-city-will-eliminate-dirty-fuel-oils-by-2030-1.2831770

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1. We should be able to meet somewhere in the middle

On the one hand we've got some who think we can get to 100% renewables by 2030

On the other we've got those who think we can't even get rid of fuel oil by that point?

Is there not something reasonably in between that is possible?

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2. Not if you're the mayor of New York, apparently

I mean, yeah, it's HVAC, it's potentially a lot of money, but . . nineteen years?

Sheesh.

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3. I bet he expects to close many of those schools by then.

Yes... 19 years seems excessive.