Will the Feds Confiscate Your Stove?

Wait’ll you see your bill for your electric stove!

Always looking for new ways to interfere in people’s daily lives, the federal government (U.S. Consumer Product Safety) has floated a scheme to ban gas stoves… but the pushback has given them some second thoughts (https://nypost.com/2023/01/10/cpsc-commissioner-backs-off-possible-national-ban-of-gas-stoves/).

Oh, no, they never meant to confiscate our stoves! sez USCPS Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. His father, Trumka Senior, was long-time head of the AFL-CIO (“You scratch our backs, we’ll scratch yours… for services rendered”). It’s just that “Products that can’t be made safe… can be banned,” sez he.

Suddenly they’ve discovered gas stoves are bad for you, indoor pollution, they give you asthma, and Gotta Save The Planet, blah-blah. Millions of us have been cooking with gas for generations without anybody in the family coming down with asthma.

Of course, these big shots in Washington have no idea how much things cost. When do they ever have to pay a bill? They’ve got staff to do their errands, run their households, pay their bills, etc., etc. They have no idea at all.

At the same time as they want to abolish fossil fuels so they can Save The Planet, they want to force millions of families to use electric stoves! They really don’t know how much that would cost. Nor do they care! What do they care for all the plebs out there? Meaning us.

So now Trumka is waffling, backing and filling, trying to pull himself out of the tar-pit that he blundered into–is there anyone in the Biden administration who’s not a caitiff, a crook, a porch-climber, a villain, a goniff, a snob, a freak, or a crackpot? Get rid of all those, and who’s left?

Our electric stoves have done us more good than all the Washington bureaucrats ever born.