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The Coming Gas Stove Culture War. Don’t believe this week’s denials. Progressive Democrats really are coming for your kitchen appliances.
Wall Street Journal ^ | January 13, 2023 | WSJ Editorial Board

Posted on 01/14/2023 6:01:54 AM PST by karpov

A sign of the media times is how quickly our leading progressive organs rally to deny that Democrats are doing what Democrats really are doing. A classic example was this week’s flare up in the coming climate war over banning gas stoves.

A Biden appointee on the Consumer Product Safety Commission explicitly threatened to ban gas stoves based on dubious evidence of public-health harm. “This is a hidden hazard,” said commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. “Any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can be banned.”

We and others criticized the idea, and the media response was to rush to blame conservatives for starting it all. “Right’s new fight: Gas stoves,” said Axios, which pushes hard for the climate alarmist agenda. The Washington Post assured its readers that “regulators have no plans to ban gas stoves, but Republicans are slamming the Consumer Product Safety Commission for announcing it will examine the health impacts of the appliances.”

But we didn’t make up Mr. Trumka’s quote. We and others responded to it. After withering public criticism, including by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, the CPSC Chairman denied any plan to ban, and the White House said President Biden also doesn’t want to ban gas stoves. But that’s cold comfort given that the climate left does want to ban them, and progressive cities and states are doing it.

Progressive cities such as Berkeley, San Francisco and New York City have already banned gas stoves and other appliances in new buildings. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul this week proposed a ban on gas equipment including stoves in new small buildings in 2025 and larger ones in 2028.

Come 2030, New Yorkers won’t be allowed to replace their gas stoves with new ones if they break down.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: cooking; energy; food; gasstove; gasstoves; liars; naturalgas; stoves
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Full article. An NYPost piece is Banning gas stoves, and going electric only, is part of left’s agenda. They want to ban gasoline-powered cars and new natural gas hookups, which makes it easy to believe that they want to ban gas stoves, too.
1 posted on 01/14/2023 6:01:54 AM PST by karpov
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To: karpov

Welcome to neo-nazism.


2 posted on 01/14/2023 6:06:54 AM PST by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nationThat of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: karpov

Make no mistake......it’s about choking off the gas not the stoves


3 posted on 01/14/2023 6:06:55 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: karpov

To accommodate electric stove, most residential homes need to upgrade their electrical service which could run a few thousand not including the line in house to stove. They kill babies yet they are concerned with childhood asthma. Trumka son of union douche. These people need to be put away in facilities that we conveniently closed


4 posted on 01/14/2023 6:07:57 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: karpov

What about the furnace you can’t take the stove and not the furnace and you can’t have the furnace so you can’t take the stove.


5 posted on 01/14/2023 6:08:54 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (wake me up when somebody tells the truth)
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To: karpov

Trmupka??

What the hell does the ex head of the United Mine Workers know about gas stoves?


6 posted on 01/14/2023 6:09:49 AM PST by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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To: karpov

You’ll own nothing and like it , is what Nazi Klaus Schwab demands


7 posted on 01/14/2023 6:10:27 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: karpov

In 100 years the Progressives have gone from “A chicken in every pot” to “No oven in any kitchen”.


8 posted on 01/14/2023 6:10:39 AM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: IAGeezer912

It’s his son, cut from the same cloth.


9 posted on 01/14/2023 6:10:55 AM PST by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nationThat of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: karpov

You know they will ban electrical appliances next. I guess everyone except the elite will live in caves and subsist on whatever bit of raw food that can be found.


10 posted on 01/14/2023 6:14:30 AM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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It has nothing to do with pollution, and everything to do with control. With electricity they can throw a switch and shut you down. Notice this appeared in the news at the same time as the story about requiring automobiles to have a "kill switch".

11 posted on 01/14/2023 6:14:49 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Shady

You don’t need a gas stove to cook ze bugs.


12 posted on 01/14/2023 6:14:57 AM PST by dforest (Joy Behar is a big mouth cow.)
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To: karpov

What are they going to do about the butane in chicken nuggets? No joke.
https://www.foodrepublic.com/2012/03/14/6-scary-things-hiding-in-your-food/#:~:text=Turns%20out%20Butane%20isn‘t,keep%20them%20%E2%80%9Cfresh%E2%80%9D%20tasting.


13 posted on 01/14/2023 6:15:36 AM PST by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
What about the furnace ....

They're coming after that too in NY, Gas, Oil, AND Wood.

14 posted on 01/14/2023 6:16:00 AM PST by Wilum (Never loaded a nuke I didn't like)
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To: karpov

And they never give up. They only retreat to regroup and plan the next attack.


15 posted on 01/14/2023 6:17:07 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: karpov

Having a gas stove makes us domestic terrorists I presume.


16 posted on 01/14/2023 6:17:57 AM PST by USA-FRANCE
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To: V_TWIN

Absolutely, once the gas stoves go, then you will have to also get rid of your gas hot water heater, gas dryers, gas BBQ grills, gas fireplaces, etc...4

Our house is primarily gas, we have a gas stove/range, hot water heater, gas BBQ qrill, gas dryer, gas fireplace, if we had to replace all of them it would be cost prohibitive, not to mention the resale value would plummet, who would buy a house knowing all the appliances that would need to be replaced ?


17 posted on 01/14/2023 6:18:35 AM PST by srmanuel
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To: USA-FRANCE

What’s next women’s sports? Oh wait.


18 posted on 01/14/2023 6:19:17 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: karpov

Gas furnaces banned next. Then any other product or process that uses natural gas or propane.

Everything will be electric and electricity will be rationed. Even for those with their own solar panels - rationed through mandatory connection and monitoring by an energy company which reports to some Federal oversight agency, which in turn, will hand out fines and other penalties for over usage.


19 posted on 01/14/2023 6:20:47 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: karpov

At some point democrats will go too far. I am fed up with democrats banning things they don’t like. Don’t want to use NG, that’s your business. Ban it and we have a problem. They want us shivering in the dark lamenting colonialism until death. I have a better idea.


20 posted on 01/14/2023 6:24:26 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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