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Meet the Green Energy Group Behind the Study That's Driving Calls To Ban Gas Stoves
The Washington Free Beacon ^ | January 16, 2023 | Collin Anderson and Joseph Simonson

Posted on 01/16/2023 6:22:10 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The green energy group behind a study cited in Consumer Product Safety commissioner Richard Trumka Jr.'s call to ban gas stoves has partnered with the Chinese government to implement an "economy-wide transformation" away from oil and gas.

Colorado-based nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute, which published the December study that attributes 13 percent of U.S. childhood asthma cases to gas-stove use, is hardly staffed by an objective group of scientists.

The organization is demanding "systemic change and economy-wide transformation" to address a climate crisis it says we must go to great lengths to avoid. In 2013, for example, the Rocky Mountain Institute joined forces with China's National Development and Reform Commission—the government agency tasked with planning the communist nation's economy—to produce a report that advised China to replace existing appliances and generators with "clean energy technologies." The commission went on to set climate goals that included energy reduction targets. When local provinces in 2021 failed to meet those targets, the commission pushed them to implement electricity rations, prompting "dimmed traffic lights that cause chaos" and "half-cooked rice in rice cookers."

The Rocky Mountain Institute is far from the first green energy group to advocate for the banning of gas stoves, which nearly 40 percent of U.S. homes use. But the nonprofit's newfound influence reflects the Biden administration's alignment with the left's loudest climate activists. President Joe Biden has already proposed a natural gas phaseout in federal buildings, which would ban fossil-fuel equipment in new buildings by 2030. Leading green energy groups applauded the move, which will cost taxpayers millions of dollars annually, the Washington Free Beacon reported in December.

Beyond its public mission statement and work with the Chinese government, the Rocky Mountain Institute's biases are reflected in its gas-stove study, academic leaders told the Free Beacon . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...


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KEYWORDS: ban; ccp; colorado; communists; energy; fascism; gasstoves; greenenergy; greens; harveyrisch; institute; jdvance; ohio; oil; redchina; richardtrumka; rockymountain; study; xijinping
There is more info on Rocky Mountain Institute's Red China ties farther down in the article.
1 posted on 01/16/2023 6:22:10 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Scratch a green, find a Red.


2 posted on 01/16/2023 6:23:09 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

There is no such thing a a million dollar gooberment expense. No gooberment expense is ever less than BILLIONS of dollars.

“Biden has already proposed a natural gas phaseout in federal buildings, which would ban fossil-fuel equipment in new buildings by 2030. Leading green energy groups applauded the move, which will cost taxpayers millions of dollars annually, the Washington Free Beacon reported in December.”


3 posted on 01/16/2023 6:32:53 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Virtue signaling is not a policy.


4 posted on 01/16/2023 6:35:30 AM PST by bray (My book, The Republic of Texas explains everything )
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To: Sequoyah101
There is no such thing a a million dollar gooberment expense.

There's no such thing as a government expense. It's all taxpayers' expense.

5 posted on 01/16/2023 6:37:38 AM PST by Lizavetta
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

China a d Biden words always seem to be connected on just about anything.


6 posted on 01/16/2023 6:37:41 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: Rurudyne

They’re called watermelons.


7 posted on 01/16/2023 6:39:02 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

China. Teaching democrats the finer points of implementing communism. This will end well.


8 posted on 01/16/2023 6:40:04 AM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

These wouldn’t be the same “greens” who depend on coal fired (or nuclear) power plants to charge their Tesla and who keep their thermostat at 74 in winter...are they?


9 posted on 01/16/2023 6:41:07 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

https://rmi.org/about/board-of-trustees/


10 posted on 01/16/2023 6:41:57 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Biden’s order could let China control US electric grid

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/bidens-order-could-let-china-control-u-s-electric-grid


11 posted on 01/16/2023 6:55:03 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Rurudyne

SHOOT a Green, will they BLEED Red is the question to ask.

Until these F-ing Greens live by their stupid ideas, their ideas will remain stupid.


12 posted on 01/16/2023 7:37:30 AM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The Chinese Communist Party want all the Gas for their Woks


13 posted on 01/16/2023 8:12:34 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

China seems all in on the USA using, converting to, and dependent on “Green Energy”, but not so much for themselves. Gee, I wonder why?


14 posted on 01/16/2023 8:42:22 AM PST by Mr. Mohasky (Common sense in a world lacking any, will be perceived & construed as an extreme point of view.)
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To: Lizavetta

You are correct of course. Caesar’s money is ours first.


15 posted on 01/16/2023 10:10:31 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: Rurudyne

“Scratch a green, find a Red.”
They sure earned the watermelon name!


16 posted on 01/16/2023 1:31:08 PM PST by simi_ed (Change the NRA)
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