JTN: The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved an amendment to a pivotal energy bill that would bar the Department of Energy from restricting gas stoves.
In a 251-181 vote, more than two dozen Democrats crossed the aisle to support the measure, Fox News reported. The measure follows reports from earlier this year indicating that the Consumer Product Safety Commission was exploring a ban on the appliance due to health concerns.
That ban did not materialize, but the Department of Energy instead proposed strict regulations and efficiency requirements that would significantly increase the cost of using them. The administration has insisted it does not support banning gas stoves.
The bill itself would still need to secure approval from both chambers of Congress and overcome a possible veto from President Joe Biden in order to take effect. MORE
Current gas ranges can be lit with a match and food cooked in a skillet or Dutch oven even with electricity off. Sounds dangerous to me.
I’ve got natural gas out to my deck which is attached to my barbecue grill. I’ve got a second grill that needs new burners (rusted out) and they cost like $40 bucks. How in the hell are they gonna take that away from me?….
This is legislation looking to fix a stupid, stupid problem proposed by a stupid, stupid Administration that wants me to continue to use my coal/natural gas fired electric stove…
How’s your Biden electric bill treating you?….Mine sucks….FJB….
If Congress would do something useful like doing away with useless and tyrannical government departments (+90% of them), they would actually have a reason to pat themselves on the back. Wake me up when it happens.
It struck me, on seeing the headline, ‘What kind of men and women are we, living here in the USA, to be concerning ourselves with a government that is or is not banning or regulating our use of a particular source of heat?’
What have we become? What will become of a people who will casually accept such an absurdity?
We seem to have already become sheeple.
They ruined our showers.
They ruined our electric light bulbs.
They ruined our toilets.
They ruined our schools.
They ruined our immune systems.
They will find a way to ruin our energy access, beginning with stoves.
Pray for our country and in particular that the people wake up to what has happened and is happening.
I’ll be waiting.
How about the fact that the US congress has to pass an amendment to PREVENT unelected bureaucrats in “our own” government from fucking with us? Plus, it still won’t stop it!
Irrelevant political posturing, virtue signaling. This legislation WILL be vetoed by Pedo Joe if it comes to his desk. Congress knows this. Thus they can pass it and PRETEND they are on our side without actually accomplishing anything.