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2023-01-10 -Great Cultural Revolution
Federal Agency May Ban Gas Stoves Over Health Hazards
Really stupid overreach. All those households cooking on electric stoves and heating with electric baseboard heat during the big storm that shut down the country over Christmas — if only they’d had gas for cooking and heating instead.
[Epoch Times] The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) will have public comment about gas stoves in the winter of 2023 and could set standards on emissions—even possibly banning them, CPSC head Richard Trumka Jr. told Bloomberg News. Natural gas stoves are estimated to be used in roughly 40 percent of all U.S. homes.
40%? This is not like that voluntary little Cash For Clunkers thing President Obama used to boost car sales — which distorted the used car market for years afterward.
"This is a hidden hazard," Trumka told the news service in an interview published on Jan. 9. "Any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can be banned."

The CPSC already issued a request for information seeking data on the alleged hazards associated with gas stoves and input for solutions. Such a request, Trumka told reporters last month, "is the first step in what could be a long journey toward regulating gas stoves." Trumka, a Biden appointee, is a former congressional Democratic staffer and the son of Richard Trumka, the late former chief of one of the most powerful unions in the United States, the AFL-CIO.

However, the EPA and World Health Organization have said that natural gas stoves emit unsafe levels of air pollutants, such as nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and other particles. Some studies show that natural gas appliances leak methane even when turned off, critics of the stoves have claimed.
Posted by Bobby 2023-01-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top
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#1 A lady told me once that she cooks with gas only because it was much better than cooking on electric burners.
Posted by Mad Eye Omeretch7959 2023-01-10 00:49||   2023-01-10 00:49|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ Food Network dogma
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-01-10 06:34||   2023-01-10 06:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Next natural gas water heaters (to include those flash models).
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-01-10 06:36||   2023-01-10 06:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Remember little steps. just little steps.

Because stupid, immoral ideas get implemented using little steps.

Think of all the Toe in the Door little steps, that became a full roll-up door with TOTAL Federal Control and Abuse.
Posted by NN2N1 2023-01-10 07:21||   2023-01-10 07:21|| Front Page Top

#5 OH! BTW:
As many in certain LSD's controlled states already know.
Modern power meters can be turned off remotely using the Smart Power Grid communication system whenever they want.

So why do we have a Smart Power Grid that allows Gov. to do control our comfort using Brown Outs?
Well Utility companies were encouraged to install smart-grid technology devices using funding from the U.S. government’s 2009 stimulus package. Just another Little Steps, Little Steps process taking 10+ years

Also look up "Hacking Smart Power Grids"
Posted by NN2N1 2023-01-10 07:37||   2023-01-10 07:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Procopius2k gas is much better for cooking because the temperature is much easier to control.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-01-10 08:10||   2023-01-10 08:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Natural gas does not require a coal or nuclaare fired power plant.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-01-10 08:24||   2023-01-10 08:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Next natural gas water heaters

Got one, love it.
On demand. No reservoir to keep hot.
Works on generator when the grid power is out.
Posted by Skidmark 2023-01-10 09:44||   2023-01-10 09:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Mad Eye and Beso have it right. We installed Propane in our log home because the person that does all the cooking, me, finds it much easier to control the heat. When you turn off an electric stove it stays hot and can easily burn what your cooking.

Get the f***ing govt. out of my kitchen.
Posted by AlanC 2023-01-10 09:48||   2023-01-10 09:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Well, it's not like there are things that actually need immediate attention - *cough* $32+ trillion national debt *cough* - from the gummint.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-01-10 10:12||   2023-01-10 10:12|| Front Page Top

#11 It may be time for those living in the countryside to look into digging a bio-gas (Gobar gas) set-up alongside or replacing your septic tank. Michael Yon recommended it as a low-tech solution for Afghanistan in 2010.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-01-10 10:30||   2023-01-10 10:30|| Front Page Top

#12 Prices for Coal and Wood stoves are going to skyrocket as demands soar.

Richard Trumka Jr. eh? Any relation to Richard Trumka Sr?
Posted by CrazyFool 2023-01-10 11:00||   2023-01-10 11:00|| Front Page Top

#13 Corrupt son
Posted by Frank G 2023-01-10 11:07||   2023-01-10 11:07|| Front Page Top

#14 I think the only way they could be more damaging is if they sincerely believed in your individual safety.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-01-10 11:32||   2023-01-10 11:32|| Front Page Top

#15 Wait til they decide you should not be allowed to cook at all...
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-01-10 11:37||   2023-01-10 11:37|| Front Page Top

#16 Suspect on the loose after mass stabbing inside Maryland McDonald’s: reports
Posted by Skidmark 2023-01-10 12:15||   2023-01-10 12:15|| Front Page Top

#17 Food Network dogma

Hate to disagree w/ P2K, but a) I've never heard anyone on Food Network say or even hint at that; b) real cooks use gas, end of story.
Posted by Raj 2023-01-10 12:19||   2023-01-10 12:19|| Front Page Top

#18 Gov't already dictates how much water your shower head releases. This is retarded.

Can the several states push back and potentially nullify this absurdity?
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-01-10 12:39||   2023-01-10 12:39|| Front Page Top

#19 Because we all know an unfortunate cook who has succumbed to the 'hidden hazard' of gas cooking.

MO = "the first step in what could be a long journey toward regulating gas stoves."
Posted by mossomo 2023-01-10 12:42||   2023-01-10 12:42|| Front Page Top

#20 This is the shadow government we all talk about. If you dont believe this is going to happen, think again. Look at CA as the future. They installed a policy ten years ago outlawing ALL vehicles over ten years old. It was regulatory, meaning they will not register your car. Then they let it sit. Now its in place. If you own a diesel truck and its over ten years old, your out of business. Your car will not be allowed emission inspections, so you cant register it.

So now they are going to come after your gas stoves, 40% of America uses gas stoves. Was this voted on? Did our politicians that write the law vote? NOPE. This is regulatory, who is making this up? Its the fauchi's of the EPA, driving personal agenda's, probably based on bribes and payoffs, like Fauchi. We need to raise hell with this, find the individuals driving this and expose them.
Its a lot like the FDA and CDC. They shut our nation down for two years. Forced stores to close, small businesses went under. We were effectively under house arrest. Then when its being show that it did not work, the shot is more harm than good, they came out and said they are only advisory. Such bull. This is the rest of the govermnment that we need to get under control.
Posted by 49 Pan 2023-01-10 13:17||   2023-01-10 13:17|| Front Page Top

#21 Ran, I may not be a real cook but I do cook and I spent extra for a gas stove and propane service (would still prefer line gas but not available) because I prefer the control it gives me (not to mention the semi-independence), though I will say modern high end electric cooktops are not as bad as electric used to be (and I still haven’t tried induction cooking.)
Posted by Glenmore  2023-01-10 15:58||   2023-01-10 15:58|| Front Page Top

#22 Next up: Fuel-gas powered furnaces and water heaters. Thence propane fueled appliances.

Nothing more than a cudgel to use on the US petroleum industry.

And citizens.
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2023-01-10 17:34||   2023-01-10 17:34|| Front Page Top

#23 Next up:

New York Gov. Hochul announces plans to ban gas heating in new homes, buildings constructed in next few years
Posted by Skidmark 2023-01-10 17:39||   2023-01-10 17:39|| Front Page Top

#24 Of course she does.

Gee, its like the whole plan is to get the masses on only electricity, choke it, and watch as people are not able to move without approval.

One theory I came across is to get people used to not having NG so to sell it to Europe at a premium because Russia gas is/will be shut off for good.

Don't know. That fits some connections but would be a reaction. This has the stink of coordination, which means a plan. And that marketing went straight to 'Do it for the children and their asthma' has a certain familiar wine mom audience ring to it.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-01-10 18:08||   2023-01-10 18:08|| Front Page Top

#25 Going from a 80-90% efficient heating source to one less than 30% is madness.
Posted by Waldemar the Limber5043 2023-01-10 21:43||   2023-01-10 21:43|| Front Page Top

#26 All high-end commercial and residential stoves and cooktops are gas. Bill Gates is not going to give up his Viking stovetop.
Posted by R. U. Terwilliger 2023-01-10 21:52||   2023-01-10 21:52|| Front Page Top

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