Posted on 01/14/2023 5:45:10 PM PST by MtnClimber
The news that the federal government is seriously considering a ban on the sale of gas stoves caught many normal Americans off guard. It shouldn’t have. Nor should they believe it when a regulator says they won’t actually ever ban the thing.
In recent decades, regulators have wormed their way into every corner of our lives – banning some products, ruining others, and pricing others out of reach of working families – all allegedly for our benefit. The only thing that’s surprising is that they hadn’t targeted gas stoves earlier.
This week, the Consumer Product Safety Commission Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. said that gas appliances – used in 40 million U.S. homes and every commercial kitchen on the planet – are in fact a “hidden hazard” that could be banned if they can’t be “made safe.”
A ban, he said, “is a powerful tool in our toolbox and it’s a real possibility here, particularly because there seem to be readily available alternatives already in the market.”
Trumka points to research claiming that gas stoves are linked to childhood asthma. But as National Review points out, the “research” was “funded by RMI, an environmental group with the radical goal of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 50% within the next seven years,” and it “was not based on any actual scientific research into the effects on the body of having a gas stove in the house during normal use.”
In other words, this is junk science, pure and simple. Yet, instead of attacking this flagrant display of misinformation, the ignoramuses in the mainstream press are all too happy to amplify it.
That’s because the real reason for talking up a federal ban on gas stoves has nothing to do with health and safety. It has everything to do with the climate “crisis.”
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made you wear a seatbelt and a helmet on a motorcycle, forced you to close your business because you are non essential and then forced you and your kids to take clot shots.
The list goes on and on
Dont forget our gas cans that actually poured without making a mess or causing good people to cuss...
Excellent Post!!!!
Gas stoves seem to be popular with prominent Dems/libs.
Tweater (now under control of the Musketeers) has done a nice job of finding pics of them cooking.
Even low carb Greta has one, LOL.
The toilets! Don’t forget the toilets! The bastards reduced us to using the “reduced flow” monstrosities that are close to useless.
its what you get when you put a commie in charge
Since when did liberals actually care for children's welfare?
As I read on another thread, what would liberals do different to us if they actually hated us and wanted to ruin our lives?
bttt
Don’t forget the laundry and dishwashing detergent. Or the A/C coolants.
I only buy incandescent lightbulbs whenever I find them. They’re more expensive too but I like the lighting better, plus I’m pissed that they tried to take away our choices. I stocked up on 100 watt bulbs when I had the chance, and I also pick up bags of plastic straws whenever I see them in the store.
And reduced water washers.
I don’t think it occurred to a one of them that people would just do more, smaller loads. Nobody is going to do laundry to have it not some out clean.
Hydraulic engineers have solved that problem (took a decade).
Last year I got a low flow Eljer from Menards that works perfectly.
I had to laugh when they tried to ban 60 watt light bulbs so the manufacturers just made them 59 watts.
They use half the water per flush. Except you often need to flush three times.
Richard Trumka Jr is was a head union puke before he got this gig.
YEAH
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I bought a few cases of R134a
Hopefully people will trade lots of paper promise notes for it in a few years ?
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