Posted on 02/22/2023 6:25:57 AM PST by MtnClimber
Shortly after a Biden administration official boasted about how the federal government might ban gas stoves for being “unsafe,” the White House reassured the public that no such ban was in the works.
We warned readers at the time not to believe such reassurances because “once this sort of train starts moving there is often no stopping it.”
That was in early January. It took less than a month for the Biden administration to prove us right.
Earlier this month, the Department of Energy released a proposed rule that, if implemented, would essentially regulate gas stoves out of existence.
The new proposed rule comes despite the fact that the same federal department had decided in the past that – aside from an existing ban on always-lit pilot lights – efficiency mandates on gas stoves didn’t make much sense, since all they do is burn natural gas.
But Biden’s regulators decided to ditch common sense, insisting that appliance makers could squeeze out more heat through new designs.
The industry, which knows a thing or two about building appliances that customers want and can afford, recognizes BS when it sees it.
“This approach by DOE could effectively ban gas appliances,” Jill Notini, a vice president of the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers, told Bloomberg. “We are concerned this approach could eliminate fully featured gas products.”
She says that 95% of the market would not meet the proposed levels.
Why the attack on gas stoves? Because they burn gas. And no matter how efficient they are, climate change fanatics will push to get rid of them because and only because of that.
But rather than admit this upfront, Biden officials keep trying to sneak their radical agenda through by claiming it’s all about “safety” or “efficiency.”
As Karen Harbert, president of the American Gas Association, put it, “We are concerned that this is another attempt by the federal government to use regulations to remove viable and efficient natural gas products from the market.”
The Biden administration says not to worry because even though the gas stove rule would impose huge costs, consumers will all save money in the long run.
This is, if you will excuse the pun, textbook gaslighting. One of the “benefits” the Department of Energy includes in its calculation is the “social cost” of carbon dioxide, a fiction that the left wants to use to justify a virtually unlimited number of cumbersome, intrusive new rules.....
Nope, this is not going away.
From my cold, dead oven mitts.
I cook with hot clouds of vinyl chloride. It’s better for the earth, and better for me.
The Obama / Biden Regime Is Still After Your Gas Stove.
There, fixed it.
Gas stoves are inefficient at the point of use.
Electric stoves are inefficient at the point of electric generation (except in areas where windpower/solar power is the primary electricity source).
FJoePedoPIG
Not content with dishwashers that takes 3 hours to barely clean anything or washing machines that can’t get dirt out of jeans? Here come stoves that take an hour to boil water.
A Puerto Rican gal can tolerate NYC being two degrees warmer.
“Here come stoves that take an hour to boil water.”
I generally boil water in an electric teakettle.
When my ancestors came to this county in 1889, there was very little timber, they cooked with wood or in some cases buffalo chips.
I’m shopping for a new gas stove for my house at the farm. Will be moving back there soon.
Slo Joe and the #ComDem’s can pound sand.
Texas has plenty of NG and oil production. There is not reason for us to go back to the stone age.
Slo Joe likes the Ukraine so much, he can just go there and live.
“washing machines that can’t get dirt out of jeans”
I don’t wear jeans, but my LG washer has done a very good job with everything I’ve washed so far. I use Arm & Hammer powdered detergent.
“In 2019 China is estimated to have emitted 27% of world GHG, followed by the United States with 11%, then India with 6.6%.”
“In 2020, 27% of the GHG emissions of the United States were from transportation, 25% from electricity, 24% from industry, 13% from commercial and residential buildings and 11% from agriculture.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_the_United_States
Together, US trucks, cars, planes and trains emit 2.97% (27% of 11%) of global man-made CO2 emissions.
Let’s regulate this feebleminded piece of garbage out of existence instead. Gas stoves have a positive use in homes all over America. Name me one thing this fly-ridden heap of feces is good for, except for compost. Same goes for his puppeteers like Odungo, Rice, Jarret, etc. and his collection of incompetent deviants he calls a cabinet.
I love this. This is one area that liberals were pissed about, which is why Biden back tracked at least verbally. I would love to see liberals get screwed over for once. Get rid of gas stoves to piss off the liberals!
And your wood stoves.
No heat for you.
Perhaps we can go to charcoal braziers, as the very real advantages of natural gas cooking stoves, water heating, and home heating simply cannot be explained to the “green” pseudo-environmentalists and phony liberals that clutter up the regulatory agencies and as lobbyists who groom the elected legislative officials to “accept” the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) principles.
The Stone Age may be an interesting place to visit and study, but it is no place to live.
All part of the plan.
It wasn’t just coincidence that they inserted funding for 80k additional irs agents:
The coming collapse would create millions of delinquencies for which they are understaffed to pursue.
Correction: “creating”...
Usually get a cord or two stacked by June.
Don’t have any other source of heat ‘cept
for the propane stove/oven supplied with a 5 gal tank.
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