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Have the gas stove protection and Freedom Act and the save our gas stoves act they argue the concerns of the gas stove ban runs right alongside the concerns of federal government overreach and after all they can come for our gas stoves our dishwashers our washing machines and a bunch of other stuff well
What else can they come for here’s representative Tom Cole chairman of the house rules committee explaining this yesterday H.R 1640 will prevent the department of energy from finalizing a proposed regulation will effectively ban half of the existing gas stoves on the market and will increase the price of the few
Options that would remain an H.R 1615 will prohibit the consumer product safety commission from regulating gas stoves as a banned hazardous product or enforcing a product safety standard that bans gas stoves or substantially increases their price now while Republicans are trying to stop the restrictions from taking place
Democrats are doing the best to push the restrictions through representative Jared Moskowitz a Democrat from Florida pushed two amendments to the Republican legislation it would look like jokes first he called for an honorary gas stove Statute in statutory Hall watch my second amendment would give gas stoves I
Think the honor that they deserve you know a stainless steel six burner double oven in Statuary Hall uh you know we have uh we have statues there that I mean are marble and bronze but we don’t have anything of stainless steel and so I think this could be uh the first one
That’s not all representative Moskowitz also suggested changing the name of the bills to make make appliances great again or stoves over the gun over gun violence act watch this I propose creating a position in the U.S department of energy for the sole purpose of fighting the war on gasto
This amendment would create this position in the department the Supreme Allied gas Commander a position that young boys and girls can one day aspire to now switching over to H.R 1615 this amendment honors uh uh honors this amendment by also changing its name to make appliances great again many of you
Already have the hats and shirts and flags and boats so I figured we would just make it easy so that you could show your support for this amendment and if you don’t like that slogan because that you know something of four years ago we can my last Amendment uh on my second
Amendment on that one changes the name uh to uh stoves over gun violence Act basically his argument is that it’s a non-issue Moskowitz later told CBS News I’m not hearing about this issue back home no one wants to ban gas stoves neither does the Biden Administration this is totally ridiculous but folks
This is unfortunately really misleading the Biden Administration is in fact pushing for bans on many types of gas stoves it appears the Democrat pushback the narratives they’re using they’re using plays on words they’re suggesting there is no full ban on gas stoves which there’s not there is no proposed
Complete full ban on gas stoves but there is a push for a partial ban and that’s where the Republican concern is in fact government’s proposal the one they have right now from the Biden Administration would result in a ban of roughly half the gas stoves currently on
The market again you could argue that they don’t want to ban gas stoves they’re not banning all of them but bending half the gas stoves that is still the ban and it doesn’t stop at gas stoves either the Biden Administration policy in question is from the Department of energy it’s the new
So-called energy conservation program energy conservation standards for Consumer conventional cooking products and in February the doe published proposed rules for stoves to align with them with energy conservation standards that’s the so-called gas stove ban this would mean new rules on annual energy consumption not just for gas stoves but
For electric stoves as well interestingly and that’s just a small piece of it proposed efficiency standards as they call them well they would also put regulations on washing machines refrigerators and many many other appliances the government is saying the restrictions on clothes washers and refrigerator years will
Actually save you money in the long run while of course critics say it would result in less effective products that can’t hold as much as they need meaning you have to run them multiple times anyways but Secretary of Energy Jennifer granholm said in the release this she said with today’s proposal we’re
Building on a decades-long effort with industry in with industry to ensure tomorrow’s appliances work more efficiently and save Americans money and since taking office President Joe Biden’s Administration notably has taken over 100 actions to enforce new efficiency standards and appliances and on products this includes for example
The ban on incandescent light bulbs the restrictions and air conditioners in home furnaces restrictions on water heaters and many many many others and probably many more restrictions still in the works of course you also wouldn’t be wrong to think it’s all Republican make-believe because well the establishment media has
Been downplaying all of this from the very get-go back in January New York Times was actually running a similar narrative to what the Democrats are now using an earlier headline on this story read this no Biden is not trying to ban gas stoves but they changed that
Headline to ban gas stoves just the idea gets some in Washington boiling and if you read the story well it includes an interview with a White House spokesperson spokesman making it sound like the whole claim is just a big conspiracy theory the White House spokesman tells the New York Times quote
The president does not support Banning gas stoves and the consumer product safety commission which is independent is not Banning gas stoves but it looks like the that’s just plain old not true since that article came out other information has also emerged in fact an internal Memo from October of 2022
Showed that the government was already looking to ban gas stoves last year the consumer product safety commission wrote in the memo quote the need for gas stove regulations has reached a boiling point in a claimed that gas stoves were harmful to children and stated quote emerging evidence is sufficient to
Conclude that gas stoves in homes emit toxic gases that cause illnesses and that low lower cost safer alternatives are available wow sounds like an incentive to ban gas stoves to me stay tuned after the break be going into how the agenda against gas stoves well it’s a bit bigger the program ties into
The United Nations and the world economic forum and the various policies they have welcome back the push to ban gas stoves it’s tied to the Department of Energy’s many new proposed restrictions on household appliances it also turned out that Biden’s Energy Secretary Jennifer granholm met privately with a group that
Funded the study at the start of the whole debate on gas stoves the group is the Rocky Mountain Institute or RMI the study in question was called this population attributable fraction of gas stoves in childhood asthma in the United States it was released in December of 2022 and tried drawing a connection
Between childhood asthma and having gas stoves in a home that report has since been called out for using some really flawed studies and flawed science it appears as well that government regulations pushing for gas stove Bans are stronger on the energy use argument and now Less on the health impact
Element but flawed or not the report sparked the national debate that we’re now in you know still the report was published by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine the University of Sydney and RMI but the RMI connection is what started turning some heads and guess why well aside from
Being the Biden doe secretary you know them allegedly meeting with the group it also turns out the group has ties to the world economic forum and because of this connection the group is tied in with a much broader agenda on changing how we live everyday life basically RMI pushes for carbon-free buildings
Maybe that’s why they want these gas bans with the argument that buildings are contributing to global warming a claimed back in November of 2020 this buildings are responsible for more than 35 percent of the carbon States sorry the United States total carbon emissions the gas burned in these buildings is a
Major contributor to climate change and a threat to Public Health and while the electricity system is getting cleaner the trend for fossil fuels and buildings is currently moving in the wrong direction our gas distribution system continues to expand with a new Gas customer added roughly every minute in the United
States now are you getting that it doesn’t sound like the move against gas stoves is really just about gas stoves or even about health it’s about climate change and the climate agenda and they were getting money as well notably from the Bezos Earth fund to help fund this agenda that’s an
Organization from the Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos the guy who you know bought Washington Post here’s Bezos himself speaking of the United Nations climate change conference in 2021 about us Bezos Earth fund watch this is part of the Bezos Earth funds 10 billion dollar commitment to fight climate change enhance nature
Advanced environmental justice and Economic Opportunity now back to RMI as I mentioned briefly it’s also tied with the world economic Forum the wef is notably also partnered with the United Nations on its agenda 2030 program for what they call the sustainable development goals it’s page on the world economic Forum website
States that RMI is quote focused on accelerating the transition to a clean prosperous and secure low carbon Energy Future and most importantly the wef notes what a key agenda of RMI is well guess what it’s tied in with the wef program for creating a net zero carbon future for cities the official page
Onset program says it brings together businesses from 10 secure 10 sectors with City Regional and national government leaders to accelerate Urban transitions to an Net Zero future and part of this is to repurpose older buildings and to change government policies and business models to reduce carbon emissions so where do the gas
Stoves come in well it doesn’t seem to be just about gas stoves it’s about energy use and gas emissions overall in fact it seems very much in line with the government’s many policies to restrict a long list of household appliances as the world economic Forum notes on its Net
Zero carbon future for cities program page quote buildings can play a key role in combating climate change it includes a long list of cities that are already on board with that agenda that includes among many Manchester and the United Kingdom Shanghai and China and again many many others then there’s a
Related wef program called this building value framework according to its official report it focuses on accelerating the decarbonization of buildings and the goal of this program focused on buildings is to eliminate carbon emissions but none of this should really seem too far-fetched for those of you in the U.S remember that in the
United States Representative ocasio-cortez has pushed an almost identical program under her Green New Deal part of that included a massive plan to change schools farms and many other things including your own home as fast company reported back in 2019 quote existing buildings Hoover up about 40 percent of the energy consumed in the
U.S and amid about 29 percent of greenhouse gases the green New Deal calls for retrofitting all of them every last skyscraper McDonald builds and Suburban ranch home for Energy Efficiency within the next 10 years that’s every building and while the green needle deal Green New Deal technically never got off the
Ground the agendas behind it did even back in 2019 in fact Mayors and 19 American cities had already pledged to begin constructing cities to meet the Net Zero standards it seems the gas stoves in other words are just a small step towards achieving all of this folks stationed after the break be
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