I have done some reading that indicates that plasma TV gives off more emissions that contribute to global warming than out door patio heaters. So why is there no EU movement to ban plasma TV? Methinks that rather than global warming, the assault on patio heaters is about smoking, since smokers can no longer smoke inside, they move outside to the heated patios to smoke, and certain segments are frustrated that smokers are still smoking...hence the movement to get rid of patio heaters.

If the real concern was the environment, things besides patio heaters would be considered in part of this ban.

On the other hand, anything that reduces global warming will help increase the number of pirates--and as it says in an email on venganza.org, pirates are just people like us, only with better clothes and worse tempers.