Posted on 04/29/2023 4:09:59 AM PDT by Libloather
For a time, President Joe Biden 's Consumer Product Safety Commission tried to spread a bogus health scare as a pretext for banning gas stoves. Since then, his Department of Energy has floated a separate proposal (still in play) that would ban almost all models of gas stoves by prescribing such stringent performance standards that 96% of the gas stoves currently on the market would no longer be legal. This, of course, is a ban in all but name.
Despite these efforts, online leftists have made the ludicrous and obviously false claim that no one is trying to ban gas stoves. But even if you could brainwash yourself to forget what has already happened just this year at the federal level, Democratic-controlled states are still out there trying to prove the point: They are in various stages of banning the use of natural gas for cooking or heating. No, this isn't a right-wing conspiracy theory - this is your life.
The latest development comes from New York state. Democrats, who control the governorship and both houses of the state legislature, have included in their 2024 budget an agreement to abolish new gas hookups in stages. Their plan bans gas hookups from new smaller buildings starting in 2025, from new larger buildings (more than seven stories) starting in 2026 and from "industrial and commercial properties" starting in 2029. Similarly, in Northern California, the Bay Area Air Quality District Board voted late last month to ban the installation of new gas-powered water heaters and furnaces starting in 2027 - although this measure does not specifically cover gas stoves.
At least when the states try to take away your gas, they openly admit that their motive is based on global warming alarmism - they don't try to concoct a pretext based on health...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
And Albany just keeps on waging its war on the middle class...
https://www.news10.com/news/conceptual-nys-budget-agreement-minimum-wage-increase/
And for people who thought their homes were safe from the so-called Housing Compact...
Think again.
BTTT
Meanwhile, not budget related but from NYS, get a load of this...
https://www.news10.com/news/nys-opens-facility-to-store-untested-rape-kits/
Supposedly for kits the alleged vic hasn’t allowed to be turned over to LE.
Gee, no chance of abuse there, eh?
I’m a chick, but that last one really curls my hair...
I don’t agree with any kind of ban on gas, but I would highly recommend not using a modern powerful gas stove/oven without a quality through the roof vent a hood. The combustion from gas must be exhausted.
A repeat of Biden’s “I dont’ want to ban fracking.” (I just want to regulate it.)
Democrats seem to have zero fear of the voter. None. Zilch.
Democrats no longer need voters, although in NY most voters are Dems.
The NY based Company I work for, bought land in Indiana - I am begging the Company President to pull the plug on NY and move the entire company to Indy.
Why, it’s pretty common to have gas stoves that don’t vent to the outside
Wonder how every restaurant in NYC is going to make this change?
Fancy restaurants that the rulers like to go to will have exemptions.
True, I never gave it a thought. But when I retired and started cooking a lot more it felt like the air in my small house was “bad”. After turning over every stone the last remaining one was my Samsung stove, all gas powered. High BTU’s. No ventilation out unless my windows are open (and that’s not always practical).
If I owned this home, I might have a proper vent a hood installed, but I’m renting. I’m just gonna replace my gas oven with an electric one.
The end of “fossil” fuels is the end of food and, shortly thereafter, civilization.
First they came for my stove.
Where do we draw the line with these petty tyrants?
Sorry Rush, but ITS TIME.
That’s because the voter is no longer needed no matter how many votes the other guy gets. Democrats will manufacturer more. No one will stop them. Not even the courts.
All this crap about climate change is the elites wanting to seize power and reestablish the the social structure the Nazis and Communist enjoyed. It always ends up with the bourgeoisie enjoy the high life and the proletariat eating their garbage ... or in this case it will be the elites eating steak and lobster and the plebes eating weeds and bugs.
And she still doesn’t own a Tesla operation bogus in operation.
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