by JOHN SEXTON
As Jazz pointed out earlier, the chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a statement yesterday directly contradicting something that has been said Monday by one of the CPSC’s board members. Monday’s statement, which was part of an interview, indicated that the board was looking at banning gas stoves. Yesterday’s statement said they definitely were not.
In between those two statements there was all sorts of activity from those who supported the gas stove ban and from those who opposed it. But the key point here is that a member of the government body with regulatory control over gas stoves did actually suggest a ban. CNN reported it under the headline “A US federal agency is considering a ban on gas stoves, report says.” [emphasis added]A federal agency is considering a ban on gas stoves as concerns about indoor pollution linked to childhood asthma rise, Bloomberg first reported.
A US Consumer Product Safety commissioner told Bloomberg gas stove usage is a “hidden hazard.”
“Any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can be banned,” agency commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. said in a Bloomberg interview. The report said the agency plans “to take action” to address the indoor pollution caused by stoves. CNN has reached out to the CPSC for comment.Trumka walked that back a bit on the same day he said it but many on the left were off to the races. Here’s AOC tweeting out a joke/talking point about the danger of gas stoves.
Did you know that ongoing exposure to NO2 from gas stoves is linked to reduced cognitive performance https://t.co/1bjmHqnHVa
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 11, 2023
Jackson was quick to point out that AOC has a gas stove in her house.
.@aoc says gas stoves cause “reduced cognitive performance” – yet she uses a gas stove? Is this a self diagnosis? AOC, as a medical doctor, I can tell you this: what’s wrong with your head IS NOT caused by stoves. Something WAY BIGGER is causing your decreased cognitive function! pic.twitter.com/yYF90wXiGu
— Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) January 11, 2023
AOC is just one example of a wider phenomenon. After Trumka’s statement about a possible ban, the media was full of articles about the dangers of gas stoves. The Washington Post jumped on the bandwagon Tuesday with a story titled “There’s a secret pollution source in 40 million homes. The U.S. may try to ban it.”For years, scientists and health advocates have tried to bring attention to a secret source of air pollution sitting in 40 million homes around the United States — whichjump-starts childhood asthma, increases the risk of respiratory problems, and emits planet warming-gasses.
It’s the gas stove.
And now, those efforts seem to be gaining traction. On Monday, Richard Trumka Jr., one of the four commissioners of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, said in an interview that the agency was considering a ban on gas stoves — or, at least, standards around the amount of toxic fumes such stoves can spew into Americans’ kitchens. Some cities — including Los Angeles, Seattle and New York — have already moved to ban gas stoves in certain new homes and apartments. Kathy Hochul (D), the governor of New York, has also proposed banning gas hookups, including for gas stoves, in new buildings in the entire state.Your appliances are trying to kill you! They’re already in the house!
But the most interesting part of this news cycle was what happened after the CPSC chairman made it clear yesterday that no such ban was going to happen. Suddenly, the media shifted from promoting the idea of a gas stove ban to ridiculing conservatives for even suggesting the idea that a ban was a possibility. So here’s that same Washington Post story after it was rewritten yesterday. The new headline which removes the word “ban” is ” U.S. agency examines secret pollution source in 40 million homes: Gas stoves.”For years, scientists and health advocates have tried to bring attention to a secret source of air pollution sitting in 40 million homes around the United States — whichjump-starts childhood asthma, increases the risk of respiratory problems and emits planet-warming gasses.
It’s the gas stove.
And now, those efforts seem to be gaining traction. On Monday, Richard Trumka Jr., one of the four commissioners of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), said in an interview that the U.S. agency was considering a ban on gas stoves — or, at least, standards around the amount of toxic fumes such stoves can spew into Americans’ kitchens.
On Wednesday, the commission’s chair said it would not ban gas stoves, but was researching health risks of gas stoves and possible increases to safety standards.So the story was stealth corrected Wednesday and the same day the Post published another story titled “How the humble gas stove became the latest flash point in the culture wars.” This one turned the focus a bit toward the GOP reaction.
Republicans and allies of fossil fuels are rallying behind the humble gas stove, a staple in millions of U.S. kitchens that has emerged as a flash point in the nation’s ongoing culture wars and a source of conservative resistance to President Biden’s environmental agenda.
The controversy was ignited when a member of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), an agency charged with protecting the public from dangerous household products, said in mid-December that the commission will consider regulating indoor air pollution from gas stoves. On Monday, Commissioner Richard L. Trumka Jr., a Democrat, said in an interview that he had not ruled out a ban on the appliances, prompting the agency to pivot Wednesday and clarify it was not planning a ban…
By raising fears of a ban on gas stoves, Republicans are in some ways taking a page from former president Donald Trump, who often complained about energy-efficiency standards for household appliances — including lightbulbs that make you “look orange,” toilets that “don’t get any water,” showers that lack a “full shower flow” and “worthless” dishwashers.That story’s attempt to connect all of this to Trump is pretty weak but it least it does include what Trumka said to prompt the reaction early on in the story. Today the Post has another story up titled “GOP thrusts gas stoves, Biden’s green agenda into the culture wars” which seems to have turned a corner into gaslighting. Here’s how it opens.
Banning gas stoves over a totally false threat like Global warming/Climate Change makes no sense its all based upon politics and junk science
Oh, gosh, reactionaries. Calm down. Nothing to see here!
Oh… wait.
Democrats said they “weren’t after your guns” and then they banned and confiscated guns.
Democrats said they don’t censor free speech and then they got caught censoring free speech.
Democrats said if you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance, then they kicked us off our insurance.
Democrats said if you like you doctor, you can keep your doctor but when we lost our insurance, we lost our doctor, too.
Democrats said cheap, readily available drugs would not effectively treat COVID, but then we find out they are VERY effective.
Democrats say their vaccines prevent getting COVID, but then vaccinated people get COVID.
Democrats say their vaccines are safe, but vaccinated healthy young people are dropping dead
Democrats say they are going to ban gas stoves and then they say they aren’t?
The government should not be telling how to live our lives in minutia. But Democrats are power hungry and crave control, even if they don’t follow their own rules (why did Obama need to put a massive propane tank in at his massive oceanside mansion?).
At our old house, we had an electric stove. When the power failed in 2019, we had gas but no electricity. We had hot water and, if we could have run the motor and circuit board, we could have had heat. But, to make coffee in the morning, I had to use our old camping coffee pot and the stove in the 5th wheel (much better than drip coffee, by the way). That will be the fate of everyone when there are no gas stoves and our power capacity is overwhelmed by electric EVERYTHING.
I would have to research history for I am currently not aware of thousands dropping dead because of gas stoves which, aside from wood burning, used to be the standard. Maybe someone will help me find it.
By the way, we still have an electric stove in our new house. It’s what my wife prefers.
They keep pushing China made or China owned crap
GE Appliances is an American home appliance manufacturer based in Louisville, Kentucky. It has been majority owned by Chinese multinational home appliances company Haier since 2016….GE Appliances.
Now if you have $$$$
What brand of ranges are made in USA?Viking, Dacor, Thermador, Sub-Zero, and Wolf (which was acquired by Sub-Zero in 2000) are among the companies that produce most of their appliances in U.S. factories.
The list of US appliance manufacturers includes Sub-Zero, Wolf, Jenn-Air, Whirlpool, KitchenAid, Amana, Viking, True. Then there are companies made in the US with foreign ownership like Bosch, Thermador, Dacor, Frigidaire, and Electrolux.
Federal Trade Commission requires that any appliance labeled “Made in America” must be assembled and its major parts made in the U.S. Thus, you can check the label to assure yourself that an appliance was made in the good old U.S. of A.
Research and advocacy groups — the Rocky Mountain Institute, Mothers Out Front, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and the Sierra Club — have released a new literature review, assessing two decades worth of peer-reviewed studies. They find that “gas stoves MAY be exposing tens of millions of people to levels of air pollution in their homes that would be illegal outdoors under national air quality standards.”
WHO?
The Rocky Mountain Institute is a partner of the World Economic Forum.
The manufactured outrage now makes sense.
It’s another scheme by the elitist control freaks at Davos attempting to shift public opinion towards the use of ‘greener’ energy sources.
Natural gas is cleaner than electricity from coal, like most of our electricity.
And pilotless stoves are cleaner than the VERY OLD stoves with pilots on 100% of the time.
But this entire thing was just a diversion from joe’s Top Secret Document scandal.
New building might someday require all-electric but, for now not even that is a requirement.