The following is an excerpt from Just the News.
The Biden administration, aided by its green energy allies, is invading the American family’s personal space with its coming regulatory crackdown on gas stoves, U.S. Oil and Gas Association President Tim Stewart says.
“The kitchen is the epicenter of everybody’s home,” Stewart told the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show. “It’s where parents teach their kids. You gather around the center island and eat together. This is a place where all the teaching takes place. And this green movement is knocking on our front doors and working its way to the center of our houses.”
The aggressive, new regulatory reach straight into the heart of American domestic life “really bothers people,” said Stewart. “It’s an invasion of their personal space.”
He said his industry will be forming an effort to whip up consumer support against the regulations and send an unmistakable message to “keep your hands off our stoves.”
In January, the Biden administration was forced to backpedal after an official hinted at a possible nationwide ban on gas stoves, claiming the appliances are linked to climate change, pollution and health problems such as cancer.
Calling the appliances a “hidden hazard,” Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. told Bloomberg in January that “any option is on the table” with regard to regulating them.
Roughly 38% of U.S. households have gas stoves.
The DOE “rule would ban 84% of the gas stoves that they’re testing as not being efficient enough,” he [Stewart] said. “And so the crappy gas stoves that you and I had in our college dorm rooms might make the cut.
But the high-end Viking and subzero ranges, they’re not going to make the cut under this DOE proposal. And according to that 84% test, it will save people $4 a year, that’s their estimate. So it’s not about savings, not about health, it’s about control.”
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