The fight over banning has stoves is heating up, as over two dozen Democrats in the House of Representatives joined Republicans to approve an amendment preventing the Department of Energy from implementing strict new regulations on gas stoves that most stoves on the market today would not be able to meet.
This appears to be an issue that Republicans may use in the next election cycles.
The House voted 251 to 181 in favor of the amendment from Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Ala., to a larger energy policy bill, and X Democrats voted with the GOP.Republicans have been looking to defend the use of gas stoves ever since the Consumer Product Safety Commission indicated it could ban stoves for health reasons. That idea was scrapped, but it was followed by a proposed Department of Energy regulation that would impose tough new energy efficiency standards for gas stoves.Palmer, head of the House Republican Policy Committee, criticized House Democrats for largely voting against his amendment in comments to Fox News Digital.”Despite all their words to the contrary, House Democrats are supportive of federal bureaucrats’ attempts to ban gas stoves. By voting against my amendment to prevent the Department of Energy from implementing its anti-natural gas agenda, they have shown themselves to be complicit,” Palmer told Fox News Digital.”Clearly, the plan to ban gas stoves was already in the works even before federal bureaucrats said the quiet part out loud earlier this year,” he said. “Republicans are meeting this attempt to dismantle American energy head on and will continue to empower Americans to choose what appliances belong in their kitchens, not have it dictated to them by a bureaucrat with a political agenda.”
We reported that New York was gearing up for its own gas stove ban. Now the leading Republican member of the New York state Senate is slamming Democratic lawmakers for pushing a gas stove ban.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, New York Senate Minority Leader Rob Ortt criticized the policy which he said was part of a broader energy policy that drives employers and residents alike to depart the state. He also said federal Democratic lawmakers from New York — such as Sen. Chuck Schumer and Reps. Hakeem Jeffries and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — are largely driving state policy.”I think it’s ridiculous and I think the danger is that it almost seems comedic and so people can take it, you know, maybe not as seriously as they should,” Ortt told Fox News Digital. “It is going to increase people’s utility rates in the state of New York, it is going to decrease energy reliability in the state of New York and it will do nothing to fight climate change.””If we think that gas stoves are the reason for climate change — that’s just that’s ridiculous,” he added. “We’re not going to stop the polar ice caps from melting because my mom has to use an electric stove.”
Elections. Consequences.
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