It will be some crud that makes the stove unworkable, so people swap for electric.
Passive aggressive environmentalism based on junk science.
Sorry, you have exceeded your yearly quota. You will have to finish your Easter dinner in the microwave.
Since the FED just “increased interest rates” again, what will that do to the Home Appliance Mortgage Market.
I am so sick of these lying weasels.
Can’t actually ban them federally, but they can regulate them out of existence.
How does EPA have the power to do this?
Certainly they will point to some law Congress passed years ago, giving them general and broad powers.
But they never imagined regulating gas stoves before. This is something new for them.
So we can assume that whatever they imagine to regulate something, in any fashion, at any point in the future - is acceptable?
The same energy department that once employed Sam Brinton?
The key sentence in this....
I cook. My rules. Stay the eff out of my business.
“We are government bureaucrats, and you have to do what we say.”
Nothing worse than a busy body gaining power
They are changing the narrative. The original ‘controversy’ was the claim that gas stoves emitted asthma causing gases, which was shown in an earlier government publication to be completely negligible, not efficiency.
More idiocy. The smell of natural gas is intentional. It is fragranced on purpose so that the user will know if there is a leak or if he/she left the stove on.
Eventually somebody will come up with a final solution to the left’s demands.
“preventing them from exceeding set levels of energy use per year.”
“The metrics used would not attempt to limit stove usage when they are installed and in use, a department spokesperson emphasized”
Those two statements cannot both be true at the same time.
Period.
If your going to limit energy usage to “set levels” you’ll have to have a cut off or restriction of some sort.
Period.
Put flame under pot, flame heats pot, pot heats contents. That’s pretty F’in simple.
Please tell me, oh wise and powerful bureaucrat, how you’re going to make this process of DIRECT impingement heat transfer more “efficient”.
Change the laws of thermodynamics?
Dear lord, I hate these people more than I can legally express.
A good gas stove will function literally to the end of human civilization with little to no maintenance.
People will just never give up their stoves, and the black market will flourish.
Anyone remember when we had people convicted of felonies, and sentenced to prison, for the “crime” of selling a shower head that released too much water?
Where, exactly, did the Federal government get this authority? And when did violations of these sorts of regulations become criminal, instead of civil, offenses?
Sons’sa biwitches. They’re bound and determined.