| 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. |
| 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.