Energy Department this week proposed new efficiency standards for consumer cooking appliances, claiming they would save a “significant amount” of energy. Gas industry advocate discounts claim, alleges ulterior motive.
Soon after softening its public stance on banning gas stoves in response to backlash, the Biden administration is already planning to impose new costs on the appliances with stricter efficiency standards that have drawn a stinging rebuke form the natural gas industry.
The Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy this week proposed new efficiency standards for consumer cooking appliances, claiming they would save a “significant amount” of energy.
U.S. Oil and Gas Association President Tim Stewart is discounting the regulators’ claim — and accusing them of concealing an ulterior motive.
“The potential environmental benefits will be very small because the potential energy efficiency improvements are very small,” Stewart said in a statement to Just the News.
The latest move against gast stoves “isn’t about efficiency,” he asserted, “it is about ending the use of fossil fuel.”
Last month, the Biden administration was forced to backpedal after an official hinted at a possible nationwide ban on gas stoves, claiming the appliances are linked to climate change, pollution and health problems such as cancer.
The White House clarified that it is not in favor of banning gas stoves, after Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. told Bloomberg the appliances are a “hidden hazard” and that “any option is on the table” with regard to regulating them.
Roughly 38% of U.S. households have gas stoves.
In a bid to allay public concerns, the Energy Department is emphasizing the time lag before the proposed new efficiency standards would take effect.
Raise an IMPEACHMENT of Biden & Harris !!!!!
Told Ya > Gas stoves NOT GOING ANYWHERE but Biden will !!!! (OUT of Stolen Office )
First it was light bulbs, then toilets, now stoves.
The government is the enemy of a free people