(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The Department of Energy released a proposal on Wednesday that would set an “energy conservation standard” for gas stoves and all electric cooking equipment.
The proposed rule would require that all newly manufactured stoves meet a certain threshold of energy efficiency. However, the DOE will not be putting a cap on consumers’ gas-stove usage for now, the Daily Caller reported.
“The Energy Policy and Conservation Act … prescribes energy conservation standards for various consumer products and certain commercial and industrial equipment, including consumer conventional cooking products,” said a summary of the law. “EPCA also requires the [DOE] to periodically determine whether more-stringent standards would be technologically feasible and economically justified, and would result in significant energy savings.”
The rule would also target electric stoves that are on a linear power supply.
In January, Richard Trumka Jr., a commissioner at the Consumer Product Safety Commission and son of the former AFL–CIO union boss, let slip that the Biden administration was deliberating on a total, nationwide ban of gas stoves.
Trumka cited a study that asserted the standard household appliance caused an inordinate number of cases of childhood asthma. However, it was quickly discovered that funding for the study came in part from nonprofits lobbying for the nationwide use of electric stoves.
A different study, performed in 2013, found that there is “no evidence of an association between the use of gas as a cooking fuel and either asthma symptoms or asthma diagnosis.”
The latter study had a sample group of 500,000 children from across the globe.
Gas stove bans keep cropping up in blue-run cities, 77 of which, in 10 different states, are currently banning or limiting the use of natural gas.
But another 20 states have taken countermeasures to prevent future government officials from banning gas stoves.
Despite the recent virtue-signaling, several of our nation’s elites have openly boasted of having gas stoves in their homes, as pointed out by Twitter users.
You have made videos of yourself cooking on a gas stove pic.twitter.com/TWLVgNp4dm
— PoliMath (@politicalmath) January 11, 2023
You are right, her clothes are a hot mess, but damn, Dr. Jill Biden heats the kitchen up by cooking on a gas stove. You go, girl! pic.twitter.com/1sNF2N6lVF
— InTheDogHouse (@Starlin44205076) January 25, 2023
