On Mar 26, 3:26*pm, "Existential Angst"
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All over the radio lately, there have been commercials, sponsored by
Kidde, manufacturer of smoke and CO detectors trying to use scare
tactics to get you to buy new CO detectors.

"CO detectors are now required by law in most homes! Get yours now!"

Where are the CO detector police? Nobody's come to my house with a
badge demanding to see my CO detector.

You probably can't sell the house without proper CO detection
equipment in place, but I don't plan on selling any time soon... Who's
making me put in CO detectors?

Proly yer insurance co's, indirectly.

If anything happens, they may not pay.
In this case, not homeowner's (that would be more for a smoke
alarms/resulting damage), but yer life insurance policies -- lack of due
diligence, and whatever other clauses they can use to screw you.

Having said that, apropos of the 3/25 ahr post on EPA demands and pre-1978
homes, this is proly the beginning of the New Penalty Pricing ito regular
municipal home inspections, where, like NYC businesses when they are
descended upon by 6 locust-like city agencies and handed $100,000 in
bull**** fines, your penalty fines for x,y,z infractions will make your
property taxes look like a tip at an expensive restaurant.

We had a shot at ****ing the Insurance companies with Obama's Public
Option..... *but, we all know how THAT went.
After the public option flew out the window, *nary an effing detail really
matters.

The bottom line is, the Ins. co's are stronger than ever, and they will rape
each and every one of us until we bleed from our eyes, ears, and noses.
Health, auto, home, life, property, you name it....

And you won't even be able to *count* the stitches you'll need in your main
orifici.

But back to the point at hand, I wonder just how many CO poisonings occur?
And what the actual stats were PRE-CO detector era, and POST CO-detector
era.
Heh, I'll bet CO poisonings shot up by factor of 100 AFTER CO-detectors.....
gee, what a coincidence....
--
EA

As a general and sensible rule when/where are CO detectors required?
We have one electrically operated CO detector in the passageway to our
bedrooms, but the only device in the house that burns anything is a
wood stove in the basement that is never left burning when we sleep!
Everything else in the house, including heating, is electric. We also
have three smoke alarms, one in passageway near bathroom on way to
bedroom, one in a storeroom behind a closed door, off the kitchen and
one at bottom basement stairs, next to workshop. All three have new
batteries and do trigger on occasion, e.g. burn a piece of toast etc.
so we know they are working.