Biden administration and blue states use regulatory mandates to outlaw a popular consumer appliance using junk science as a justification. Media: "Republicans Pounce!"
Sacramento Bee (6/20/23) reports: "No one from the federal government is going to come into your home and take away your gas stove. But Republicans and Democrats are making the fate of gas stoves the latest front in the raging political culture wars. It is a preview of the kind of rhetoric likely to persist throughout the 2023-24 campaign season.. Why gas stoves? Because they’re an appliance used every day in millions of kitchens. The GOP saw it’s opening in January, when Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. told Bloomberg News that a gas stove ban was 'on the table.' Trumka explained that only new gas stoves would be banned. But the Washington firestorm was ignited. So to Republicans, the threat of losing the appliances, however remote, shows that the Biden administration wants to control your kitchen. To Democrats, putting curbs on natural gas is crucial to their efforts to halt climate change and promote energy efficiency. For two days this week in the House, and coming soon to the Senate, the war was on. 'Republicans stand with the American people, who overwhelmingly agree that banning gas stoves altogether is an egregious overreach and government-knows-best ideology at its worst,' said Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Florida, a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. And, GOP leaders warned, a gas stove ban would be another example of an arrogant Democratic Party eager to deny people freedom of choice."
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"As each energy policy failure is used as proof of the need to double down, leaders have resorted to increasingly totalitarian tactics, careening much of the region toward a system of government with more than a whiff of communist characteristics."
– Doomberg, Substack
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