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For a third day in a row, Bay Area folks will be deprived of a roaring fire due to the wood-burning ban still in effect. See, it's illegal for us to burn wood, pellets or manufactured logs in fireplaces, stoves or other wood-burning devices because of all the pollution the logs emit.

In addition to Ride Your Big Wheel to Work Day, tomorrow, May 15, is also Spare the Air Day. But here's the nasty rub: there will be no free transit.

Tonight, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has asked you, the Bay Area, to drive less as well as holding off on burning wood in fireplaces and woodstoves, which are a large contributor to airtime pollution level. (You hear that, Zuni Cafe and Chez Panisse, you depraved, Hummer-loving, slow-food bastards.) Read more about it here. Also, there's no free transit during winter/fall Spare the Air days. Bummer....