AProudLefty (01-15-2023), Cypress (01-15-2023), LurchAddams (01-15-2023), ThatOwlWoman (01-15-2023)
The Biden administration isn't proposing to outlaw the fossil-fuel-powered appliances. But they're at the center of a growing nationwide debate about city and state gas bans — and the latest Washington culture war.
Republicans and conservative pundits have spent the past week nonetheless expressing alarm about the fate of Americans’ ranges and cooktops — in line with previous GOP complaints about real or imagined threats to hamburgers, toilets, air travel, incandescent light bulbs and gasoline-powered cars.
It also touches on a real, coast-to-coast crusade by liberal city and state leaders to prohibit gas stoves and furnaces in new buildings, on the grounds that they endanger health and contribute to climate change. But the White House has disavowed enacting any such ban at the federal level. (“The president does not support banning gas stoves,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters after the issue came up repeatedly at Wednesday’s news briefing.)
Other Democrats in Washington are looking to avoid the uproar — including the Virginia Democrat who helped spark the fuss.
“I’m loath to touch the stove again,” said Aaron Fritschner, a spokesperson for Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.), when asked for comment about this week’s stove backlash. “It was a very stupid news cycle. So little of it was based in fact.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/0...toves-00077944
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
ברוך השם
AProudLefty (01-15-2023), Cypress (01-15-2023), LurchAddams (01-15-2023), ThatOwlWoman (01-15-2023)
"The atmosphere is among the factors that determines the Earth's atmosphere." --ZenMode
"Donald has failed in almost every endeavor he has attempted. " --floridafan
"Abortion is not a moral issue. " --BidenPresident
"Propaganda can also be factual." --Flash
"Even after being vaccinated, you shed virus particles." --Jerome
"no slavery is forcing another into labor" -archives
"Evs are much safer from fires" -- Nordberg
"Abortion has killed no one." -- LurchAddams
Nordberg (01-17-2023)
gfm7175 (01-20-2023), The Sage of Main Street (01-25-2023)
Well, they can't use abortion anymore as a lure to get the marks into their sideshow. Now that they have the majority, however slight, in the House they'll pretend that illegal immigration isn't a problem anymore because they have no intention of doing anything about it. So what to do? What to do? I know! Gas stoves! The Democrats are coming for our gas stoves! lol
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
AProudLefty (01-15-2023), Cypress (01-15-2023), Doc Dutch (01-15-2023), Guno צְבִי (01-15-2023)
I love it when politicians put a foot in their mouths. LOL
Sadly, it’s part of American politics when Representatives are continually running for office. A two-year term is too short, IMO. Four would be better with a three to four term limit.
In this case, like “Defund the Police”, politicians were looking at an issue and possible solutions when it skewed off into the weeds. They’re held responsible for something that went beyond their control.
From the link:
… I’m loath to touch the stove again,” said Aaron Fritschner, a spokesperson for Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.), when asked for comment about this week’s stove backlash. “It was a very stupid news cycle. So little of it was based in fact.”
In December, Beyer and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) asked the Consumer Product Safety Commission to look at the health risks posed by gas stoves’ methane emissions.
Then a member of that five-person commission suggested to Bloomberg News in a story this week that a ban on new gas stoves could be one of many options to be pursued in the future. But the member, Biden nominee Richard Trumka Jr., had previously failed to get his fellow commissioners to support even regulating stoves, as POLITICO’s E&E News reported Tuesday. Instead, the commission plans to gather “public input” on stoves’ health hazards and possible solutions.
“I am not looking to ban gas stoves and the CPSC has no proceeding to do so,” Chair Alexander Hoehn-Saric later said in a statement.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Guno צְבִי (01-15-2023), ThatOwlWoman (01-15-2023)
LOL. Agreed about illegal immigration. As the old saying goes, “everybody talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it.”
Wedge issues help political parties rally voters and collect donations but rarely, if ever, actually solve the problem in the best interests of We, the People. Abortion should be legal, safe and rare. The nation needs immigration reform. The nation needs election reform. None of these issues are likely to be resolved anytime soon in the best interests of the nation, only in the best interests of the dominant political party.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Guno צְבִי (01-15-2023)
Doc Dutch (01-15-2023), Guno צְבִי (01-15-2023)
let us recall the history of the victims of lib'rul alarm......air conditioners, clothes dryers, flush toilets, light bulbs........is it safe to ignore lib'rul stupidity?.....
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
The Sage of Main Street (01-25-2023)
Wow. You must have a TON of tin foil hats around your home.
How are AIR CONDITIONERS affected? I know you like Trump so you take mega dumps and flush toilets have ALWAYS been your nemesis, but "Light Bulbs"??? Are you joking? We now have LED bulbs which use a FRACTION of the energy needed vs older bulbs.
Why are you COMPLAINING??
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?????????
PostmodernProphet (01-15-2023)
AProudLefty (01-15-2023), Guno צְבִי (01-15-2023), ThatOwlWoman (01-15-2023)
No doubt he's talking about air conditioners in relation to freon and its destruction of the ozone layer. So 1990s. How odd that we still have air conditions and a much smaller hole in the ozone.
Luddites like PiMP should all go live in caves and eat nuts and berries and raw meat. lol
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
AProudLefty (01-15-2023), Cypress (01-15-2023), Guno צְבִי (01-15-2023)
Yeah, I figured. But even so, AC still works just fine! (I actually got to spend some time working on measuring CFCs in sea water back in an old job eons ago. Very interesting stuff).
Something tells me the complaints wouldn't abate then either. LOL!Luddites like PiMP should all go live in caves and eat nuts and berries and raw meat. lol
Guno צְבִי (01-15-2023)
We're dealing with the intellectual prodigy of the people who howled in protest when lead was banned from paints and gasoline.
Guno צְבִי (01-15-2023)
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
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