By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE
The House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing next week to dig into the Department of Energy’s proposed gas stove regulations, a controversial regulatory effort that has sparked backlash and bipartisan opposition.
House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Chairman Pat Fallon, R-Texas, announced the hearing, which is scheduled for July 18 and is called “Cancelling Consumer Choice: Examining the Biden Administration’s Regulatory Assault on Americans’ Home Appliances.”
“The Department of Energy’s wave of new standards on everyday appliances from stoves to dishwashers to lightbulbs embodies the Biden Administration’s whole-of-government approach to over-regulate Americans’ day-to-day lives,” Fallon said in a statement.
As The Center Square previously reported, House lawmakers passed the “Gas Stove Protection and Freedom Act” with bipartisan support earlier this year. The legislation would prevent the Consumer Products Safety Commission from using taxpayer dollars to regulate gas stoves as a “banned hazardous product” or implement any regulations that would practically prohibit gas stoves by making them too expensive.
“The Biden administration is intent on weaponizing every aspect of the federal government to achieve its ideological goals,” U.S. Rep. Kelly Armstrong, R-N.D., who sponsored the bill, said in a statement. “Consumer protection should be about safety, not used as a veiled push to eliminate fossil fuels and the millions of jobs they support. Americans should decide if gas stoves are right for their families, not the Federal Government.”
The hearing is the latest step by lawmakers to build momentum against the regulatory effort, which polling has shown is largely unpopular. A Harvard CAPS Harris poll from June found that 69% of those surveyed opposed a gas stove ban.
Environmental activists have defended the policy, raising concerns about the environmental impact of the methane released from gas stoves as well as research suggesting gas stoves could cause conditions like asthma.
Fallon argues the proposed policy will put a financial hardship on Americans.
“The Biden Administration is doubling down on policies that will only make American families’ lives more expensive, after already ignoring the skyrocketing inflation it inflicted,” he said. “The American people deserve to further understand these bizarre, targeted efforts to regulate their appliances out of existence.”
If they ban gas stoves I’m getting a second stove and turning on all the burners and keeping them running just to spite them
I’d buy a second as a backup when the one I have bites the dust. Maybe a third depending on your age. For me, one spare would be enough.
That’s not going to help with the looming shortfall of natural gas in Southcentral, but at least you’ll be sticking it to Biden? (For an extra $$/month…)
I’d drain my life savings and my kids college accounts if it meant sticking it to the libs.
What a bunch of imbeciles . Nearly all of the nation’s power plants have recently been converted to run off of cleaner natural gas and eliminate the use of coal . The environmentalists pushed for it and so did the government . This was a huge capital investment for both the electrical utilities ( rate payers ) and the government (tax payers ) . Now they want to shut down natural gas when just a few years ago they were ok with it ! Sheesh .
I want to see proof that the rich all have no gas stoves. If the elites really wanted to reduce carbon why don’t they talk about the worlds military’s fuel consumption and all the unnecessary sports and entertainment venues that bring thousands of people every event? How much fossil fuels for a year of football or baseball or all the concerts. Those put out unnecessary carbon because they’re not a requirement for civilization to survive.
The fact that the pipeline wasn’t built with, or long since added to it, a natural gas pipe illustrates the utter incompetence of both wings of the Uniparty. Fairbanks should long have been heated with natural gas, and the excess exported world wide. We are now in the societal death spiral of a decadent, ignorant and dysfunctional national society. We are led by “Joe Biden,” the personification of a failed state.
We have plenty of people with unsound minds. Permitting more mind altering substances sales locations seems against good public policy.
Natural gas is essentially the cleanest fuel on the face of the earth. Only a true ignoramus, liar, or blithering idiot would be trying to do away with gas stoves.
Elon is using LNG (liquid methane) for fuel on the Starship both stages, i think. China is developing a methane-fueled rocket also. Older versions use RP-1 (kerosene, AvGas, JP-8, diesel, etc – same molecule). Cheers –
It was my understanding he was using solid fuel, but it’s not like I’ve researched it.
Liberalism truly is a mental disorder.
A “smart” meter can regulate your use of an electric stove…
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Oh… now I know why they are against gas stoves.
Soon you will be getting weekly rations of bug biscuits which will require no cooking or heating. So, you will not be missing your gas range at all.
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