An official on President Joe Biden’s Consumer Product Safety Commission let it slip to a reporter earlier this year that the sale of gas stoves might soon be banned for health and safety reasons.
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The Biden administration, using a bogus study from a group of environmental activists, was signaling its intention to spread a fake health scare over gas stoves. This was to be a pretext for imposing a ban related to global warming alarmism — something most people care about less than health.
Public outrage over this news forced Biden’s minions to rethink their plan. But they didn’t take long to sneak back to it.
The Energy Department announced regulations that will ban the sale of nearly all gas stoves on the market. It would ban the sale of 96% of gas stoves currently being purchased, to say nothing of the models bought years ago. The stoves that meet the new regulation requiring minimum emissions technology comprise only a 4% market share. So this would be, for all intents and purposes, a ban on gas stoves.
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Those stoves that would remain legal would certainly be more expensive than those available today. But they will also be inferior for their purpose, which is cooking, because there’s a lot more to cooking than carbon emissions levels. The compliant stoves emit less carbon dioxide with trade-offs at the expense of consumer preference. Smaller burners and longer cooking times may be just the beginning.
Biden’s Energy Department is coming not only for your gas stove. Your fridge and your washer are also in its sights. The administration claimed its new refrigerator and washer-dryer standards would cut carbon dioxide emissions by 233 million metric tons over 30 years. That amounts to 0.02%, two hundredths, of world emissions. In exchange for that virtually nonexistent environmental benefit, consumers will pay upfront costs of $7.58 billion to buy more expensive washers and $6.9 billion for more expensive refrigerators.
As for the anti-gas stove rule, Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) pointed out recently that it will save the average consumer just $22 over the next 14 and a half years, about $1.50 a year. No wonder Biden’s administration feels it must force people to buy products they don’t want.
Consumers already have environmentally conscious choices. If they prioritize that, then it is their right to purchase appliances solely on the basis of energy efficiency. Biden has no business forcing them to give up effectiveness and convenience for a 0.02% reduction in global greenhouse gases.
