Posted on 04/01/2023 5:51:57 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Biden Regime’s approach to governing is to push regulations through the bureaucracy if they prove politically unpopular and then deny all accountability.
Joe Biden made it clear from his first day in office that he was going to change America’s energy policy. He canceled the Keystone pipeline and did everything he could to cripple the American energy sector. Now that the world is at peace—with Russia in Ukraine and China about to be in Taiwan—and the United States’ economy is thriving while our southern border is completely secured, the Biden Administration needed a new villain. Fortunately one was readily available . . . our appliances.
First, the Biden Administration claimed that gas stoves are dangerous and should be banned. The call to ban gas stoves was inspired by a study that attributed “13 percent of U.S. childhood asthma cases to gas-stove use. The group behind that study, the Rocky Mountain Institute, has partnered with the Chinese government to engineer an ‘economy-wide transformation’ away from oil and gas.” So basically, the Chinese Communist Party is driving our energy policy.
After the kerfuffle over whether or not the administration wanted to ban gas stoves, Biden claimed he was against such a ban, per the AP in January of this year.
Now, however, the Department of Energy is taking the lead (and the heat, so to speak) through new regulations. The Department of Energy’s new rule would impose extreme regulations on the performance standards of gas powered stoves. It “sets requirements for gas cooktops at the maximum technologically feasible or ‘max-tech’ level. Based on the Department of Energy’s own analysis, gas cooktops at the max-tech level represent only 4% of current stoves. Any rule that causes 96% of the products available today to be eliminated from the market is an . . . outright ban on gas stoves.”
So while Joe Biden does not openly support a ban on gas stoves, his Department of Energy needs only to issue new guidelines that would ban 96 percent of all gas stoves. If you have cooked on both a gas and an electric stove, you know what the difference is. Gas is so much more efficient and faster. Even the Sierra Club disagrees with the Biden Administration, stating that “a gas stove is better than an electric stove in terms of total energy consumption.”
But let’s not stop with dictating how you cook your food. How about the way you cool your home during the summer? The Department of Energy has proposed new regulations that would require more than 21 million U.S. households to replace their air conditioning units. Meeting the new air conditioning regulations would “cost manufacturers a total of about $82.1 million” to meet new compliance requirements, per the Hill. One hopes voters in the southwestern United States are paying attention to these new requirements.
But wait! There’s more. The Department of Energy is also working on new regulations for “clothes washers and refrigerators,” even though “many critics see this as federal overreach and unnecessary given that the industry has improved technology without government intervention.”
These new regulations should be of concern to all Americans. They are reflective of the Biden Regime’s approach to governing: If we can’t get a law through Congress, or if openly advocating it proves politically unpopular, we will simply implement new regulations through the bureaucracy. They have done this with guns and now they are doing it with home appliances.
We must resist these fascistic tactics. I recommend some peaceful civil disobedience. I personally am going to cook a meal that takes three hours on my gas stove and, even though it is still cold in Chicago, I am going to crank my air conditioner down to 65.
All that is not mandatory is prohibited.
Fascism, welcome to America.
They've got top experts working on it. TOP experts.
(In the meantime, be sure to fuss over a couple of extra milliamps going into your cell phone overnight. Be sure to unplug once it's charged up, OK? It's to stop global warming.)
You want my microwave?! Come and take it you bastards!!!
Biden and the Dems made one serious mistake. Urea and Ammonia fertilizers come from Natural Gas and all marginal lands will be take out of production. Famine is around the corner.
They’re using the same regulatory state approach to do away with cars using internal combustion engines.
Famine is for all of us serfs and non-people in the eyes of the government.
The end of "fossil" fuels is the end of food.
That's why they are doing it.
It’s not just appliances they are going after. They want full fledged Communism. You own nothing and do what they say.
When conservative voters decide that so-and-so RINO doesn’t deserve to be elected, and so the let the DEMOCRAT take the seat (to ‘teach the GOP a lesson’)...we get more and more of this crap. And no, there is literally NO END to it, and that future should be very clear to these whiners.
...and when they get enough of their judges in place, say goodbye to the legal ownership of firearms, and NO, the Second Amendment will not matter - since it will be THEIR JUDGES ruling on it. Bank on it.
You can remotely cut off power to undesirables with low ESGs and make them suffer. Much less so if you have a gas stove, fuel furnace, fireplaces, woodburning stove, a well with an old timey hand pump...
bkmk
The real problem is GOP scum refusing to support actual conservatives. Save your complaints for them. What you want, for decent people to support GOP slime, is a slow death. Support of leftist or squishy GOPers is what brought us here and it leads to the same place as the rats want to take us, just at a different pace.
“The United States Has Declared War . . . On Your Appliances”
The Democratic Controlled Government Has Declared War . . . On Your Appliances
There, fixed it
Commrade ! You will get a Gas Stove when the State decides you deserve a Gas Stove
When I think of our government the scriptures about the Beast and mystery Babylon come to mind. oh yeah and worship of the creation rather than the Creator. Personally, I don’t believe this is a great country anymore, not even a good one if I’m honest. Certainly not the worst but...this nation has come under the judgement of God imo and I’m no Holy roller. The obsession with sex, gender this and that, trans this and that, diversity and inclusion and equity and all the other convoluted leftist terms is mind boggling. And the populace just sit back and go along lest they be perceived as hostile to the motives and ideology of the far left that has taken over so many institutions. I don’t understand how we got to this point.
“Support of leftist or squishy GOPers is what brought us here and it leads to the same place as the rats want to take us, just at a different pace.”
MUCH SLOWER, perhaps slow enough to get some real conservatives into power - like Trump, who was willing to fight them. For example, if Al Gore had won in 2000, the Left would have OWNED the Supreme Court and this forum would have been quickly shutdown. And, obviously, NO ONE would legally own guns anymore in the US.
We must resist these fascistic tactics. I recommend some peaceful civil disobedience. I personally am going to cook a meal that takes three hours on my gas stove and, even though it is still cold in Chicago, I am going to crank my air conditioner down to 65.
Is this a joke?
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