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Home Gas Emissions
With measuring criteria developed by EPA, the typical home burning natural gas produces more indoor pollution than any other source.
It's not just the volume of contaminated gas that's important, it's also the content of hazardous chemcials and the lack of quality that exposes us to the most harm.
One example of hazardous content is the findings from Penn State University which reports finding PCB levels as high as 1,250 ppm in gas pipes. The EPA restricts human exposure to PCBs at 50 ppm and is considering reducing that level even further. Many in the scientific community feel there are no safe exposure levels for PCBs.
Another example of gas content is Particulate Matter (PM). PM is the "soot, carbon black and oily grime" produced when gas is burned. The EPA has lowered the PM exposure levels to 2.5 microns. EPA warns that (PM) causes more asthma and breathing difficulties in women and children than previously known, and wants PM exposure in our environment to be reduced or eliminated.
For comparison, its like dumping a fully loaded vacum cleaner bag all over the house - and inside your clothes - every day. Day in and day out. Contaminated gas is like the sorcerer's apprentice, it just keeps adding to the gas contamination levels.
Nobody goes around dumping vacum bags of dust all over their home. Yet, the gas utility dumps their gas waste on you every day, without your permission or knowledge, and . . . they make you pay them.
Contaminated natural gas produces more indoor air pollution than tobacco or second-hand smoke. Therefore, gas combustion is the largest and most dangerous source of pollution people are exposed to.
Which Gas Do You Want To Use?
Natural Gas Contains:
Typical Utility Gas
Low-Emission Filtered Gas
Benzo-a-Pyrene
Yes
Filtered
Benzene
Yes
Filtered
Toluene
Yes
Filtered
Carbon Monoxide
Yes
Filtered
Soot
Yes
Filtered
Formaldehyde
Yes
Filtered
Radon Gas
Yes
Filtered
Radon Daughters
Yes
Filtered
PCBs
Yes
Filtered
DIOXINS
Yes
Filtered
FURANS
Yes
Filtered
Dust
Yes
Filtered
Rust
Yes
Filtered
Olefins
Yes
Filtered
Waxes
Yes
Filtered
Tars
Yes
Filtered
Oxides
Yes
Filtered
Sulfuric Acid
Yes
Filtered
Mercaptans
Yes
Filtered
Particulates
Yes
Filtered
Oils
Yes
Filtered
Cleaner Indoor Air
No
Yes
Safer Indoor Air
No
Yes
Cleaner Food
No
Yes
Safer Food
No
Yes
Filtered gas reduces emissions and offers cleaner, safer gas than gas utilities can provide.
Because retail and consumer products use larger volumes of gas in their operations than homes do. Contaminated gas comes into direct contact with the products made for consumers.
When this product contamination is added to the pollution exposure in the home, our health and safety is being seriously compromised by contaminated natural gas.
A Typical Residence
With this measuring criteria EPA can demonstrate that the typical residential gas consumer produces at least 374.9 pounds of combustion byproducts each month, on average. For comparison, one would have to dump 40 fully loaded vacum cleaner bags inside the home.
And 50 million residential gas consumers produce a whopping 18,745,000,000 pounds of gas combustion pollution each month.
Each year they produce 18,745,000,000 x 12 = 224,940,000,000 pounds of pollution that's dumped into our environment, indoor air and foods.
By comparisson, 224 Billion pounds of combustion waste is more than tobacco smoke produces; therefore, gas combustion is the largest and most dangerous pollution source consumers are exposed to.
Additional Sources
Consumer and retail product manufacturers use large volumes of natural gas in their operations. Such gas waste comes into direct contact with the products they make for sale to consumers. When consumer product contamination is added to the Billions of pounds produced by residences, the health and safety factor increases dramatically.
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