Saturday, June 07, 2014

NEW YORK MAYOR FIGHTS POLLUTION FROM COAL-OVEN PIZZERIAS

Bill de Blasio is requiring that expensive filters be installed on the chimneys of coal-ovens used to make pizzas

New York’s far-left, Sandinista-loving, wacko mayor apparently believes the Big Apple’s relatively few coal-fired pizza ovens are a major contributor to the city’s air pollution. Thankfully, pro-business Houston, as Ken Hoffman points out, does not consider its coal-oven pizzerias as contributing to air pollution.

NEW YORK MADNESS
By Ken Hoffman

Houston Chronicle
June 5, 2014

I don't live in New York City, but I demand a recount from the last mayoral election. Mayor Bill de Blasio is pushing a new regulation that would require coal-oven pizzerias to install expensive filters on their chimneys. He's talking about legendary pizza joints like Lombardi's in Little Italy, John's on Bleecker Street in the Village, Totonno's in Coney Island, Patsy's in East Harlem and Grimaldi's by the Brooklyn Bridge.

In a city as big as the Apple, with a billion cabs clogging every intersection, exactly how much pollution is caused by coal-oven pizzerias? We're talking fewer than a dozen joints. Why hassle the best thing New York has going? It's not like these places are putting out foul odors. Pollution never smelled this wonderful.

Thankfully, coal-oven pizzerias continue unfettered and unfiltered in pro-business greater Houston. My favorite: Grimaldi's in Town Square Mall, Sugar Land. Grimaldi's also has a restaurant in Katy and one in The Woodlands.

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