New York City pizza is the latest thing the government is going after in the name of climate change. New York City will reportedly turn up the heat on pizzerias with wood and coal-fired ovens to attempt to cut down on pollution.
The New York Post reported on Sunday that the New York City Department of Environmental Protection has drafted new rules to force restaurants with wood and coal-fired ovens to cut their emissions.
Fired up about the new policy, artist and Patriot Scott LoBaido decided to vent his frustrations by throwing pizza at City Hall after reciting a monologue expressing his frustrations.
The monologue started out by rebuking the “woke ass idiots who run this city” and the naked men with their “titties bouncing around all over this city yesterday in public” at the Pride Parade in front of ‘children’.
@DC_Draino on Twitter:
Patriot artist @ScottLoBaido throws pizza at NYC City Hall after Dems announce plans to crackdown on coal & wood fired pizza ovens As he throws slices, he yells “give us pizza or give us death” Why would NYC destroy the last good thing they have?! 😂
@Citizenfreepres:
“Give us pizza or give us death!” Scott LoBaido throws pizza at the entrance of NYC city hall in protest after Democrats announced plans to crackdown on coal and wood fired pizza ovens.
If the report determines that it is impossible to achieve a reduction of 75% or more, or install any emission controls, it must identify any possible emission controls that could offer at least a 25% reduction, or provide an explanation as to why such controls cannot be installed.
The restaurant will purportedly be allowed to apply for a variance or waiver, but will be required to provide evidence demonstrating the hardship this mandate causes.
A city official told the Post that under 100 restaurants would be affected by the new rules.
The new rules will likely affect some of the oldest and most iconic pizzerias in New York City, including Totonno’s, Grimaldi’s, Lombardi’s, Patsy’s, Paulie Gee’s, and John’s of Bleecker Street.
An anonymous pizza restaurant owner with a coal-fired oven told the New York Post, “This is an unfunded mandate and it’s going to cost us a fortune, not to mention ruining the taste of the pizza – totally destroying the product.”
“If you f*** around with the temperature in the oven you change the taste,” the owner lashed out. “That pipe, that chimney, it’s that size to create the perfect updraft, keeps the temp perfect, it’s an art as much as a science. You take away the char, the thing that makes the pizza taste great, you kill it.”
The restaurateur said, “And for what? You really think that you’re changing the environment with these eight or nine pizza ovens?!”
Paul Giannoni, the owner of Paulie Gee’s in Greenpoint, has already installed a $20,000 air filtration system in preparation for the rule change.
Giannoni stated, “Oh yeah, it’s a big expense! It’s not just the expense of having it installed, it’s the maintenance. I got to pay somebody to do it, to go up there every couple of weeks and hose it down, and you know, do the maintenance.”
Giannoni noted that his neighbors appreciate that the oven is emitting less smoke. He added that the scrubber did not change the taste of the pizza.
Patriot artist @ScottLoBaido throws pizza at NYC City Hall after Dems announce plans to crackdown on coal & wood fired pizza ovens
As he throws slices, he yells “give us pizza or give us death”😂
Why would NYC destroy the last good thing they have?!
pic.twitter.com/10haZI3u9d— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) June 26, 2023
Cops posted right there. cops were great. just got a summons. all good. my point was made
— Scott LoBaido (@ScottLoBaido) June 26, 2023
It never ends.
Tune in here around noon today! pic.twitter.com/ANfAy5cLCO— Scott LoBaido (@ScottLoBaido) June 26, 2023
