Posted on 10/22/2023 7:00:15 AM PDT by Dahoser
New York’s leaders are doubling down in their fight against gas stoves.
A vocal group of legislators, doctors and scientists is imploring Gov. Kathy Hochul to pass the NY Home Energy Affordable Transition Act — just months after Hochul’s controversial move to ban gas stoves, furnaces and propane heating in new residential buildings in the Empire State.
During a virtual press conference this week, the agitated assemblage presented a report bolstering the argument against any kind of gas-powered appliances, period.
A bill floated by the group would effectively allow the decommission of natural gas pipelines and plants and expedite the transition away from using natural gas for heating or cooking in all New York homes, according to Gothamist.
The proposed legislation passed the Senate 39-23, but did not successfully pass in the Assembly, where it is back in committee with 71 co-sponsors, per the website.
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/Do I really need a sarc tag? Freepers should see what I'm doing here...
New York absolutely depends on taxes from Wall Street and Fed.gov to support its progressive bloat and insanity.
If Wall Street crashes, NY State crashes with it. I know everyone will worry about their 401K, but take some comfort in silver linings.
Let me remind everyone that over 57,000 homes were out of power for over 24 hours during the Christmas blizzard of 22 in the city of Buffalo NY alone.
The only thing that kept these families from freezing to death was natural gas.
Let that sink in.
That isn’t ignorance, it is pure out stupidity. You ban the natural actual fuels you have in deference to the unicorn fart fuels you “feel better about”. Is the place run by women?
Oh wait…
If you separated the downstate counties around NY City from the rest of New York, the remainder of the State would vote like Tennessee or Kentucky.
Easier to see my watch in the dark.
All those fancy chefs that cook for New York’s most privileged are certainly not going to like this...
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Demonstrating once again the the immense brilliance of the Framers in creating the Electoral College. Adding a local version to the guarantee of republican government to the states is my go back in time and change the Constitution wish.
that’s right, make everything electric, i.e. single point failure... brilliant
I lived in So CALIF for 29 years.
WE were told often HOW TO TURN OFF OUR GAS if an earthquake hit.
STILL CAN DO THAT. Have propane now, but can turn it off with 90 degree turn of wrench.
New York government is for sale to the highest bidder.
cuckoo
About a dozen years ago in lower new york, we were hit with a hurricane. Knocked out electricity for my suburban neighborhood and surrounding neighborhoods for a whole week.
Trees and branches were felled which in turn ripped down electrical wires in a few different places on my block alone. It was fall, late October, so it while it wasn’t freezing winter weather just yet, it was very cold indoors and out. But we had a natural gas stove with which we were still able to cook food and heat up our home until the electricity was brought back on.
Yup. Why I focused on NYC.
They want electric use and cost of electric use to skyrocket to where inflation in domestic energy use in New York surpases anywhere in the world.
That is totoally clear when their ideas start from mere theoretical demands to absolute demands with no real cost effective plan for any well enegineered method for getting from the theoretical to the practical. They are 100% willing to put mandates in the laws and let the financial chips fall where they may.
......spot on...! many years ago, when we wisely left Noo Yawk State for the sunny South, we ran into an NYC transplant, whose biggest complaint was....”Geeez..youse can’t even find anywhere to get a good bagel down heah, ya know....”
....stay up north; don’t move south...we rubes still don’t know how to make good bagels, like, ya know...and we all carry guns...sometimes more than one at a time..and we know how to use them, too....!!!
Side bar comment ..... In SW Va 2 years now, out of New Yawk, and I learned how to make genuine, authentic, NYC Jewish deli bagels. I miss the Hudson Valley views and bagels but I am never going back.
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