Feds Are Attempting To Ban Gas Stoves

Within the next few years, gas stoves could be a thing of the past.

Richard Trumka Jr., the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commissioner, stated in a Monday interview that the Feds are considering regulating or even prohibiting natural gas stoves in the U.S.

This is due to studies that claim to have found an association between appliances and health–harming air pollutants.

Many are not supportive of the Feds banning gas stoves considering if the power grid was ever to be turned off then people would have no way to cook their foods besides creating an open flame in their backyard.

So help me, if my gas stove is banned, I was will use #coal exclusively. Screw the #EPA, the #WHO and the private jet that they few in on. Read the room- you have 0 credibility. https://t.co/s1tAfB7Lej

— Noah Fencebutt (@Noah_Fencebutt) January 9, 2023

➡️ From my cold dead hands. We love ours & we're able to cook during power outages (we don't have a generator).

Gas stoves could be banned in 2023, top federal official says: ‘It’s a real possibility.’ https://t.co/kSkAPXxBV1

— Paddy X. O'Mugwump🌻 (@PatrickDowns) January 9, 2023

The Washington Examiner had more details to add:

A federal agency will weigh plans to regulate and even ban natural gas stoves in the U.S., a top official said, over research showing a link between harmful air pollutants and the popular household appliances.

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. said in an interview published Monday his agency plans to take action to address the pollutants, which have been linked to asthma and other respiratory issues.

“Any option is on the table,” he told Bloomberg, describing the pollutants as a “hidden hazard.”

“Products that can’t be made safe can be banned,” he said.

The agency has already issued a request for information seeking public data on hazards associated with the natural gas stoves and input for proposed solutions, a spokesperson for the agency told the Washington Examiner.

The request for information “is the first step in what could be a long journey toward regulating gas stoves,” Trumka, a Biden appointee and a former Democratic congressional staffer as well as the son of Richard Trumka, the late former top labor official, told reporters in December.

This was the funniest response on Twitter to the news:

An army of Southern grandmothers plans to form a caravan to Washington to protest the proposal.https://t.co/MYwCk9XxLX

— Jeremy Gray (@jgray78) January 9, 2023

The National Review dropped more details:

A federal agency may look to ban gas stoves over concern about the release of pollutants that can cause health and respiratory problems, according to a new report.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is set to open public comment on the dangers of gas stoves sometime this winter. The commission could set standards on emissions from the gas stoves, or even look to ban the manufacture or import of the appliances, commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. told Bloomberg News.

“This is a hidden hazard,” Trumka told the outlet. “Any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can be banned.”

Increasingly under fire as potential health hazards, gas stoves could be banned in 2023, top federal official says: ‘It’s a real possibility.’ https://t.co/gddiK8O4C1

— Chicago Things to Do (@redeyechicago) January 2, 2023