Nick Pope
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President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly considering taking executive action to protect gas stoves from regulatory overreach, Reuters reported Tuesday.
The executive order being considered would also cover other gas-powered appliances, including heaters, after Democrats and the Biden administration spent years advancing regulations that would restrict their use over time, according to Reuters. The details of the action under consideration are not yet clear, but the policy would likely be in line with a Congressional push to cut funding to dissuade state and local governments from pursuing gas appliance phase-out policies.
“It speaks volumes when an order from the White House is needed to stop our own government from banning natural gas furnaces and water heaters,” Karen Harbert, president of the American Gas Association, told Reuters in a statement. (RELATED: Biden Official Behind Gas Stove Crackdown Admits She Has No Clue What It Takes To Install An Electric Stove)
Interesting little tidbit from @EENewsUpdates this morning.
It came as a surprise, especially since we have all been reliably informed that Democrats are not trying to get rid of gas stoves. pic.twitter.com/nEyEUWfqhm
— Nick Pope (@realnickpope) December 20, 2024
Approximately 75 million American households used natural gas to power at least one appliance as of 2020, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Approximately 47 million U.S. households used gas for cooking purposes in 2020, an increase from 39 million households in 2015.
Over its one term in office, the Biden administration pushed forward energy efficiency rules for stoves, portable generators, pool pump motors, water heaters and more, many of which would gradually guide markets toward electric or energy-efficient models and away from gas-powered versions. Consumer Product Safety Commission Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. suggested in 2023 that gas stoves could potentially be banned after studies linked the appliances to cases of childhood asthma, though the Department of Energy declared in May 2023 that the notion the federal government is targeting gas stoves is “misinformation.”
Moreover, the Biden administration also worked to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to help state and local governments devise building codes that effectively amount to backdoor efforts to phase out gas-powered appliances, energy policy experts explained to the Daily Caller News Foundation in December 2023.
Environmental activists and blue state officials are still working to find ways to force the phase-out of gas-powered appliances despite the country’s rightward shift in the 2024 elections, according to E&E News.
The Trump-Vance transition team did not respond to a request for comment.
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Propane and Kerosene, widely used for heating and cooking where piped gas is not available, also need to be protected
Can you imagine how screwed flooded folks in South Carolina would have been if propane and kerosene heaters had been banned by in the basement/on the beach, senile, sniffing, grifting/grafting, lying, plagiarizing, stumbling Biden
You have an unstated assumption that Biden was actually in charge.
More and more evidence to the contrary is pouring out that the “staff” were pulling the strings..
I don’t know if there is a link and I’m not dismissing the seriousness of childhood asthma having had it myself in the 1940s when there was only coal gas and there were no puffers.
It is the state’s function (via a consumer product safety commissioner or whatever) to research recommend and even strongly urge but not to ban, fully-informed consumers must be free to choose.
A gas stove with an overhead extraction fan, has basically zero possible harmful effect.
You get more aromatic volatiles from the food that is being cooked. !
Think about how much better this would be than cooking over dung…
… which is what is forced on a significant proportion of the population of under-developed nations by the green agenda.
There is no causal relationship whatsoever between burning natural gas or propane and the incidence of asthma.
I have lived 62 years in 16 different houses or apartments ALL plumbed with Gas
Gas Water Heating
Gas Central Heat
Gas Cooking
No Asthma
4 Brothers and 1 Sister no Asthma
Mother Father Stepfather no Asthma
Grand Parents Aunts and Uncles no Asthma
Cousins Nephews Nieces no Asthma
28 family members all with Gas appliances and no Asthma
Asthma you get from wood stoves, no matter how “clean” they are, but they are not banned.
They aim to kill us
I have 3 pots of water on the Gas Range to boil…making dinner…no breathing issues at all. Pardon me if I seem a little steamed.
I have a catalytic gas fire at home and gas cooking rings and central heating no problem , life expectancy is going up we are getting our pensions later and later as governments can’t afford to pay them
But you don’t get the interesting flavors you get with a dung fire!
cooking over dung
I’ll never forget the “nature” show where the host was touring Africa and ran into someone cooking with dung. He was gushing over how “sustainable” it was.
No clue.
According to Johns Hopkins and Mayo Clinic, a gas stove does not emit emissions that cause or trigger asthma in children.
There is a hereditary influence (genetics) at play.
The biggies: “Airborne allergens, such as pollen, dust mites, mold spores, pet dander or particles of cockroach waste.”
What is being done is unconstitutional. The Federal Government cannot dictate commerce, aka private citizen choices. They can only regulate interstate commerce (not dictate).
So, who is the biggest threat to democracy?
Did you know that CO2 is actually a “bronchial dilator” that can sometimes help alleviate the breathing difficulties associated with asthma, (depending on its cause).
That is why breathing into a paper bag can sometimes help with asthma, it increases the internal CO2 levels.
Same with the Buteko method of breathing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_to_Choose
Great series. Great book.
The link with asthma was totally bogus, made up. Read up on the actual scientific debunking of the sole study that made the link (which was not based upon anything but the flimsiest of correlations). It was seized upon by the Biden Democratistas as yet another excuse to promote all electric energy.
The good news is they did not spend trillions creating computer models.
“I don’t know if there is a link”
It shocks me how limited medical science is. After years of investment why is cancer still (eventually) terminal?
Medical studies of fields less heart-tugging than childrens cancer usually sample subjective parameters from too few all European white males between 20 and 50 and hide math because it assumes normal distributions for things not normally distributed.
On the actual topic – laws and executive orders about gas stoves: I don’t want to reinforce the precedent for creating federal law in the executive branch. It may be too late after about 20 years, but creating executive orders where laws belong seems like an early step toward dictatorship.
I think USA’s founders were puzzled by how to protect Iowa farmers from California voters and thought the only way was limiting federal authority. Even if I prefer gas stoves in kitchens, I’m against executive orders for household appliances.
Yes the founders were dead before Iowa and California happened. Pretend I picked valid state names.
Yes, executive orders are dictatorial type actions.
Start by firing every bureacrat involved in every ban or restriction or proposed ban or restriction. Then cut the staff of every agency involved in those policies by at least 25%. Review in 2026 and see how much more downsizing to do. Rinse and repeat.
Checks and Balances.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-health-risks-of-gas-stoves-explained/
So … stop cooking inside all together. Eat only raw meat, fruits and veggies and heat only with electric furnaces. And of course, there would have to be a federal subsidy to finance the junking and replacement of millions of gas stoves.
lol. you said meat
Trump was highly critical of Biden trying to stop people from using natural gas appliances, at his news conference two days ago.
In my State, Oklahoma, natural gas companies are offering to pay people to install gas appliances.
In my state, Virginia (or at least in my area of the state) the gas company will install a gas line and meter for free if you agree to use the gas service within two years (I think it is). My wife and I switched out an oil-burning furnace, an electric water heater and an electric stove or all gas. Saved us a ton of money on electric and fuel oil bills. looking back now, I wish we had done it sooner.
They can pry my cold dead fingers from my gas stove. There! I said it!
That’s the plan.
Clear as a button hook in the well water.
but they may well be able to prevent you from getting the gas to use it.
From the link:
“We did not … In our energy conservation standards program, we did not consult with FERC,” Richmond replied.
In short, they pushed this ideology without checking to see the real impacts.
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), an independent agency that regulates the transmission of electricity and natural gas across state lines
The power of the Department of Energy to set “efficiency” rules based on global warming considerations should be eliminated. Better yet, just RIF that whole section, or transfer them to the Aleutians.
Why would you wish to punish Alaska?
Does one get extra points from these radicals if someone has a side burner smoker
and a wood fired pizza oven along with a gas range? A guy has to live ya know..
Hopefully we can whittle down a lot of our crappy government
Wow….executive orders by the President about cooking….was this what the founding fathers planned as part of presidential powers ?