[I am Richard Brandon]

The New World Order is everywhere! Exactly the same thing is happening over in Europe. From today's Daily Mail:

"Now Europe comes for the Sunday roast: Brussels to impose maximum power limit on all new gas and electric ovens from next month."

The whole article is worth reading to see restrictions in things like hair driers etc.:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2895999/Now-Europe-comes-Sunday-roast-Brussels-impose-maximum-power-limit-new-gas-electric-ovens-month.html

[Peet]

"Now Europe comes for the Sunday roast: Brussels to impose maximum power limit on all new gas and electric ovens from next month."

I had to replace the glow bar in a gas range a while back. The part is between $75 and $90 and consumes 800 watts ALL THE TIME THE OVEN IS ON.

I replaced the range with one that uses NO glow bar and the oven can be match-lit during power failures. It uses a sparker that ignites a pilot which warms a thermocouple to turn the flow of gas on. It may sound like a kludge, but it works. Reliably.