Assault on Gas Stoves

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Schumer roasted for saying 'nobody is taking away your gas stove' just months before NY banned gas stoves​

However, on Wednesday, Schumer's home state of New York approved a sweeping $229 billion budget that prohibits gas hookups in new smaller residential buildings by 2026 and in larger residential buildings by 2029, making it the first state in the country to pass such a measure.

Multiple cities led by Democrats including New York City have already implemented similar gas appliance restrictions and states like California have tackled the issue through modified building codes.

"How many things can [Schumer] get wrong in one tweet?" said Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., the top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee's oversight subcommittee.

"NY has moved to ban gas stoves in new builds," Huizenga continued. "Meanwhile the [House GOP] has passed the Limit, Save, Grow Act to raise the debt ceiling, rein in spending, protect Social Security, and preserve VA funding. What a #SchumerSpecial."

 

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Democrat Attorneys General Support Nationwide Gas Stove Crackdown​

The regulatory attention toward the appliances follows a letter from Democratic lawmakers last year expressing concern over “risks posed to consumers” by gas stoves. The comments from the attorneys general cited similar concerns, contending that low-income households and minority communities are especially vulnerable to air pollution from the devices.

“Pollution from gas stoves often has a disproportionate effect on households located in underserved communities, especially low-income households. In some instances, low-income housing conditions may contribute to a greater risk of exposure to pollutants from gas stoves,” the letter continued. “Those conditions include smaller unit sizes in multifamily housing, poor ventilation, use of a gas stove as a source of heat, and maintenance deficiencies.”

The call for regulatory action comes days after Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced new efficiency standards for dishwashers, vending machines, and electric motors. She said that the Biden administration is “using all of the tools at our disposal to save Americans money while promoting innovations that will reduce carbon pollution and combat the climate crisis.”



Gas Stoves Are RACIST ... somehow cheap, easy, Nat Gas is racist

 

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The unexpected carveout green-lighting the billion-dollar Mountain Valley Pipeline — which is 94% complete, but has been mired in a lengthy permitting process for years — was immediately cheered by West Virginia lawmakers who have touted the project's expected economic benefits for years. The pipeline is projected to create 2,500 construction jobs, $40 million in new tax revenue for West Virginia, $10 million in new tax revenue for Virginia and up to $250 million in royalties for West Virginia landowners.

"After working with Speaker McCarthy and reiterating what completing the Mountain Valley Pipeline would mean for American jobs and domestic energy production, I am thrilled it is included in the debt ceiling package that avoids default," Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., the ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, said in a statement.

"Despite delay after delay, we continued to fight to get this critical natural gas pipeline up and running, and its inclusion in this deal is a significant victory for the future of West Virginia," she added.

Republicans secure massive gas pipeline approval in debt ceiling deal

The budget deal reached by President Biden and House Republicans on Sunday unexpectedly approves a massive natural gas pipeline vehemently opposed by climate activists.

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Lawmaker Questions Top Official Over Proposed Gas Stove Ban, Cost to Move to Electric​

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Geraldine Richmond, the Department of Energy Under Secretary for Science and Innovation, on July 18 testified before the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs during a hearing called “Cancelling Consumer Choice: Examining the Biden Administration’s Regulatory Assault on Americans’ Home Appliances.”

During the hearing, Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) addressed Ms. Richmond regarding a DOE notice of proposed federal rulemaking unveiled in February that would allow the agency to set new efficiency and conservation standards for home appliances, including gas stoves.

The proposed rule (pdf), which is meant to reduce emissions from household appliances, would affect at least half of new gas stove models sold in the United States and make most of the existing ones on the market noncompliant, according to Republicans on the subcommittee.

‘Not a Ban’?​

During the hearing, Mr. Perry disputed Democrat claims that the DOE rule shouldn’t be referred to as a gas stove ban.

“I don’t know what kind of gas stove you have in your house … and to the gentlelady on the other side of the aisle, she says it’s not a ban [but] according to my figures, 4 percent of current gas stovetops available on the market today meet the rule, which means that 96 percent of them don’t,” Mr. Perry said.

Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) outside of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on May 30, 2023. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
The Republican lawmaker then said that many people on lower incomes wouldn’t be able to afford a new gas stove compliant with the new rules and so would opt for an electric stove but pointed out that installing one could be costly.

“If you’re not making a lot of money, you can’t afford the expensive one that probably will meet it, so you’ve got to try and buy the other one,” he said, adding that he’s glad the DOE is getting people to save money by “forcing them to spend a bunch of money.”

Mr. Perry continued, “If you have gas stove in your home right now, there’s a gas line coming to it and probably a 110 [electrical] connection.

“Do you know what it takes to put an electric stove in your home? Do you have any idea?”

“No, I don’t, but—” Ms. Richmond replied, and before she could elaborate, Mr. Perry cut her off.

“Here, I do! You got to run a 220 line. Which means you’re going to probably have to get an electrician because unless you know how to do that yourself, you’re playing with potentially losing your life and electrocuting yourself,” he said.

“You’re going to have to hire someone to come in and drill holes in your floor and pull wire to the panel and hook that whole thing up.”

He then asked whether Ms. Richmond had included installation costs for a new electrical line for an electric stove in the DOE’s estimated efficiency savings.

Mr. Perry added that such installation costs would be especially burdensome “for poor people, who are just happy to have a gas stove.”

Ms. Richmond replied by saying that the administration isn’t looking to force anyone to replace their existing stove with an electric one, prompting Mr. Perry to argue that when a person’s existing stove breaks down, he or she would be forced to buy a more expensive one that complies with the new rules.

“We’re strongly in favor of consumer choice,” Ms. Richmond began to say, with Mr. Perry interjecting, “Apparently not!”

 

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Biden admin quietly revises gas stove analysis, reduces projected benefits​

"The newly released DOE analysis revises downward the potential energy savings from its original cooking product rulemaking proposal, showing that the savings are even less than DOE originally projected and are almost negligible," the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM), a leading industry group, said in a statement shared with Fox News Digital on Wednesday.

"The changes in energy savings projected by DOE primarily result from DOE recognizing that the currently available cooking products are more efficient than its earlier analysis assumed," the statement added.

AHAM added that, while the DOE revised the projected savings to come from its rulemaking, the agency is standing by its proposed standards which may be finalized in the coming months. The group also called on the DOE to "reconsider the extremely stringent levels" it proposed so manufacturers may be able to continue providing quality products to consumers.

"Consumers still stand to lose features and access to many currently available gas cooking appliance models — in exchange for saving only pennies each month — if the proposed standard takes effect," AHAM continued.

 

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Biden Admin Rolling Out Stove Regulation After Insisting It’s Not Trying To Ban Gas Stoves​

The rules are likely to make certain models more expensive up front, but the government contends that the rule will save Americans money on their utility bills in the long run by reducing the amount of energy their stoves use, according to The Washington Post.

“The new standards will also require only a small portion of models to make modest improvements to their energy efficiency to match the level of efficiency already demonstrated by the majority of the market today,” according to the DOE. “For example, approximately 97 percent of gas stove models and 77 percent of smooth electric stove models on the market already meet these standards.”

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Commissioner Richard Trumka, Jr. kicked off a political firestorm in January 2023, weeks before the administration unveiled the original proposal, when he suggested that a potential de facto ban on gas stoves was on the table in an interview with Bloomberg News. The administration has repeatedly insisted that it is a “myth” that the federal government wants to ban gas stoves in the time since.

A June 2023 Harvard CAPS Harris poll showed that nearly 70% of respondents oppose policies that would amount to a de facto gas stove ban. Over 80% of Republican respondents and 71% of independents are opposed to such policies, joined by 55% of Democrats polled in the survey.

 

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'The Science' Strikes Again: Gas Stoves Release DANGEROUS Nano-Particles, 'Experts' Say​

So, now we have reached the '... it's good that it is,' phase of Democrat policy, wherein they try to scare anyone and everyone from ever using a gas stove again. The latest effort in this front is a new 'study' which claims that gas stoves emit dangerous NANO-PARTICLES (ooooh, scary word) that are more harmful than wrapping your lips around a car's exhaust pipe ... which the Post embarrassingly confuses with a car's muffler in the tweet below.






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Researchers from Purdue University found that gas stoves released nano-sized particles that leave people with an increased risk of asthma and other respiratory illnesses.

'These super tiny nano-particles are so small that you’re not able to see them,' associate professor Brandon Boor from Purdue’s Lyles School of Civil Engineering told Southwest News Service on Friday. 'They’re not like dust particles you would see floating in the air.'

'After observing such high concentrations of nano-cluster aerosol during gas cooking, we can’t ignore these nano-sized particles anymore,' he ominously added.

The lapdog media adding in that word 'ominously' at the end was a particularly nice apparatchik touch, we thought.

News flash for Purdue 'researchers' and The New York Post: people have been using gas stoves since the 1820s and we're doing just fine, thank you very much.

It's also important to note that these 'nano-particles' are not even classified as harmful pollutants or something that causes respiratory problems ... just something that COULD cause them. But of course, the 'experts' want them to be harmful.

One of our favorite chefs in America, Andrew Gruel, laid into the 'study' with no holds barred.

 

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Berkeley plans to repeal first US gas ban​

The city of Berkeley, California, has agreed to repeal the nation’s first-ever gas ban, raising questions about the fate of similar restrictions on fossil fuels across the West.

Berkeley unveiled the decision about its 2019 restrictions on gas hookups for new buildings as part of a legal agreement Friday ending a lawsuit brought by the California Restaurant Association. Berkeley said it will stop enforcing the policy while it goes through the legal process of repealing the ban.

The California Restaurant Association touted the settlement, saying it should set a precedent for dozens of cities and counties in California to rescind their own gas bans modeled after Berkeley’s.

 

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The different between a conspiracy theory and the truth is six months.

 

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Notice how the trend is always - toward electricity? Stoves, cars, heating, etc.?

 

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Notice how the trend is always - toward electricity? Stoves, cars, heating, etc.?

Yes The Green Energy .... we can do EVERYTHING on Solar and Wind Farms

No more reasons to Drill, baby Drill

 

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Biden Bans Gas Stoves and Appliances in Federal Buildings​

The Biden DOE has regulated aggressively to push more energy-efficient appliances, which are often more expensive up front and powered by electricity rather than fossil fuels. The DOE and other agencies have pushed regulations targeting items like lightbulbs, portable generators, pool pump motors, water heaters, and furnaces under the watch of Granholm and President Joe Biden.

The agency also has billions of dollars to spend on consumer rebate programs for those who would like to replace their existing eligible appliances with the administration’s preferred energy-efficient alternatives, and it has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to work with state and municipal governments to craft building codes designed to decarbonize buildings.

Earlier in April, the DOE published a report detailing its long-term vision for sharply reducing the emissions of America’s entire building stock over the coming decades. Among other means, the report highlighted electric appliances, “smart control systems” that moderate energy demand, and advancement of the administration’s electric vehicle agenda as key tools to realize its goal of reducing building emissions by 75% by 2050 relative to 2005 levels to fight climate change.

 

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Biden Admin Cements Gas Stove Rule After Insisting It Isn’t Going After Gas Stoves​

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) efficiency rule for gas stoves, announced in January, will come into effect as expected in January 2028, according to a Monday entry in the Federal Register. The finalized rule is less stringent than a 2023 proposal that was subsequently abandoned, and nuance in the rulemaking process allowed for the agency to walk back parts of the regulation if it received a significant volume of negative public comments on the docket, according to E&E News, but the DOE has gone ahead with its rule over the objections of several Republican state attorneys general and advocacy groups, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI).

The DOE rolled out the rule as a “direct final rulemaking,” meaning that there was no published proposal for the policy, according to E&E News. The “direct final rulemaking” process also allowed for groups like CEI to leave comments about the rule with a chance of getting the agency to water down the rule.

 

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Love it when people are so confidently wrong. The gas isn't directly burned, it's mixed with air, and just like in a car (or anything that relies on combustion) this can be done more or less efficiently (ambient hot surrounding air, or colder forced air, etc). It's not just a matter of turning up the gas.

 

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California bill mandating health warning labels on gas stove sales passes in state legislature​

Gas powered stoves in California could now come with a health warning label similar to what you'd find on a pack of cigarettes or other tobacco products, according to a new proposed law in the state.

California lawmakers passed a bill at the end of August that would make it illegal to sell a gas stove that is manufactured or sold online on or after Jan. 1, 2025, or sold in a store on or after Jan. 1, 2026, "unless the gas stove bears an adhesive label attached in a conspicuous location," according to the text of the bill. Gov. Gavin Newsom has until the end of September to sign the bill into law, NPR reported.

The labels, often pushed by environmental groups like Climate Action Now, are the latest development in a multi-year battle between climate activists who argue that gas stoves are environmentally detrimental and unsafe and pro-gas stove industry advocates and consumers who view the proposals as the government meddling in private life.

Those who support the legislation believe it will help families address respiratory problems like asthma caused by exposure to stove emissions. However, industry advocates argue that the bill unfairly targets gas products and should note that proper ventilation is needed regardless of the fuel source.

For online sales, it will be required for websites to prominently "post a warning, that sets forth a specified statement relating to air pollutants that can be released by gas stoves, among other requirements. as specified," according to the bill.

 

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