They will be ‘walking it back’ in the next few days. Or pretending to. The public will forget about it. 6 months later they will sneak it into a bill and not tell anyone about it. The public wakes up one day and it’s illegal to sell a house with gas appliances; there is no way to get one repaired.
Everyone asks “how did that happen?”
That’s what I think will happen. It will be like having carbon monoxide detectors and asbestos remediation and stuff like that, under the guise of making everyone safer. What it’s really about is control.