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Government Corruption
Biden's minions target gas generators
2023-07-22
[American Thinker] Is there anything Joe Biden and his greenie paymasters won't try to take away from us?

Issues & Insights has found a doozy of a new item they're targeting for taking away from us -- gas-powered generators, which are used in the event of blackouts:
When the power goes out, most of us just have to wait until it’s restored to get back to our normal lives. In the meantime, as we wander through a dark house flipping useless switches out of habit, we make sure we don’t open the refrigerator and we put off anything we had planned that requires us to burn electricity. The more-prepared among us, though, buy fossil-fuel-powered generators to avoid interruptions

Their future, though, is in doubt. The Biden administration wants those generators to go the way of the incandescent light bulb.

"Just months after a Biden-appointed regulator teased a ban on gas stoves, the administration is working to enact a rule that would prohibit the manufacturing of nearly all portable gas generators on the U.S. market," the Washington Free Beacon reported earlier this week.

The legality of this is amazingly questionable. They're literally ruling by "rules" to enact vast declines in our standard of living, taking away our freedom of what we can buy for our basic energy needs because of global warming.

It's bee ess. In places such as California, the grid has been so battered by greenie requirements for energy production blackouts are expected and inevitable.

The Los Angeles Times has even put out a piece for its establishment buddies, with this lede:
Posted by:Besoeker

#15  /\ Better not to take any chances. Go ahead and turn yourself in Ed.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-07-22 15:49  

#14  Re the generator in storage: it's a 10kw (not very) portable. It's got an 8kw little brother sitting next to it.
I bought those while I was living south of Houston; since I retired and move to near Lake Livingston, we haven't even had a flicker. Hence, "in storage".
Posted by: ed in texas   2023-07-22 13:27  

#13  Ref #6
GENERAC 22KW, a Godsend during last winter. I can run the well, my A/C, dishwasher and laundry washer/dryer simultaneously.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-07-22 12:23  

#12  occasional blackout

No excuses. I've had my coffee.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2023-07-22 11:57  

#11  The occasional black might actually serve one purpose. It could get voters so pissed off that they stop voting Democrat.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2023-07-22 11:57  

#10  You mean like, "my body, my rules"?
Posted by: DooDahMan   2023-07-22 11:38  

#9  When you are able to exercise legitimate control of your affairs, you have freedom. When some other SOB exercises control of your affairs freedom is lost.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-07-22 11:34  

#8  They are trying to trigger martial law. It will take an elimination of bass boat engines to throw society into chaos. When I see that restriction hit, II will be heading to The Walmart to buy two pallets of toilet paper.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-07-22 11:28  

#7  Yes it is clear the LSD's want control of your life, electricity, EV travel, Home cooling/heating, meals, and etc...

But take a peak on eBay.com or Alibaba.com at various 2kw to 4kw + Wind or Hydro electric Generators from $500 to $1,800 delivered.

But then again, the LSD's would just invoke an US Air or US Water use tax next.
Posted by: NN2N1   2023-07-22 09:47  

#6  My generator is large and permanent. I have no intention of freezing in the dark in the north woods for these pocket hitlers.

When the power goes out the generator kicks in and is good for a couple of weeks if necessary though 3 days is the longest we've needed it since moving to NH 4 years ago.

Sounds like it might be time to build up the ammo supply.
Posted by: AlanC   2023-07-22 08:49  

#5  That reminds me: I need to go get my generator out of storage. There's a storm tracking for the windward islands...
Posted by: ed in texas   2023-07-22 08:09  

#4  ^ Individuality. It's such an ugly, democracy destroying thing.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-07-22 07:27  

#3  Personal generators are a racist 'Load Sharing' work-around and should be banned.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-07-22 07:23  

#2  LA Times article labeled ‘peak climate idiocy’ after floating ‘occasional blackout’ for ‘the greater good’
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-07-22 06:18  

#1  Would an occasional blackout help solve climate change?
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-07-22 06:11  

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