The Feds are coming for your gas stoves! “The US Consumer Product Safety Commission is considering the health risks associated with gas cooking.” Why not just say you hate efficient, affordable home cooking? Or, how about choosing between charging the EV they made you buy with a 7-year loan or a hot meal?
Democrats are The Party of Choice™.
New peer-reviewed research published last month in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health found that more than 12% of current childhood asthma cases in the US can be attributed to gas stove use.
“There is about 50 years of health studies showing that gas stoves are bad for our health, and the strongest evidence is on children and children’s asthma,” said Brady Seals, a manager in the carbon-free buildings program at the nonprofit clean energy group RMI and a co-author of the study. “By having a gas connection, we are polluting the insides of our homes.”
Perr-reviewed. Oh, and paid for in part by RMI (emphasis, mine).
Funding
This research was supported in part by internal funds of RMI and in part by the National Cancer Institute (1U01CA242740-01).
Who the heck is RMI?
RMI is an independent, non-partisan, nonprofit organization of experts across disciplines working to accelerate the clean energy transition and improve lives. Since our founding in 1982 by Amory Lovins, RMI’s chairman emeritus, we have grown to over 500 staff working on four continents with a global reach and reputation.
RMI decarbonizes energy systems through rapid, market-based change in the world’s most critical geographies to align with a 1.5°C future and address the climate crisis.
RMI wants you to shift from Natural Gas to electricity which, as you well know, is anything but decarbonization. Natural gas is a superior fuel for things that have allowed us to lower emissions (if you think we need to do that). In other words, RMI has an agenda and just paid for research supporting it.
Biden’s US Consumer Product Safety Commission is in on the same. But here’s the thing. It’s garbage.
This is a BS claim.
Show us someone whose asthma or cancer can be attributed to a gas stove.
If this was actually happening, you’d think someone would have noticed by now. https://t.co/msbQlCfg0f
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) September 16, 2022
Steve Milloy is (in his own words) “Perhaps the most influential climate science contrarian’ (Nature). Trump EPA transition. Biostat. Atty. Fund mgr. FOX News contrib. Founder, JunkScience.com.” I just followed him on Twitter. Let’s see how that works out.
In the meantime, having lived many years in the company of gas stoves, I agree. I can’t speak to 50 years of very convenient research, but I’ve known folks over the past (almost 60 years) who had kids and used gas (stove, oven, hot water, heat), and none of them had asthma. Maybe they’re the wrong color?
Senator Cory Booker (D., N.J.) and Representative Don Beyer (D., Va.) wrote a letter to the agency last month urging the commission to address the issue and calling the harmful emissions a “cumulative burden” on black, Latino and low-income households.
Senator Cory “Sex-Assault” Booker’s solution is to add significant financial strains on these families by forcing them to cook with more expensive electricity, which, given the lack of capacity and planned demand, could mean they eat cold food or go hungry.
The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers argues that cooking produces harmful emissions regardless of the kind of stove used.
“Ventilation is really where this discussion should be, rather than banning one particular type of technology,” Jill Notini, a vice president at the association, told Bloomberg. “Banning one type of a cooking appliance is not going to address the concerns about overall indoor air quality. We may need some behavior change, we may need [people] to turn on their hoods when cooking.”
And?
The American Gas Association similarly argued against a ban.
“The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and EPA do not present gas ranges as a significant contributor to adverse air quality or health hazard in their technical or public information literature, guidance, or requirements,” Karen Harbert, the group’s president, told the outlet. “The most practical, realistic way to achieve a sustainable future where energy is clean, as well as safe, reliable and affordable, is to ensure it includes natural gas and the infrastructure that transports it.”
And they all have a vested interest in the outcome. Everyone’s got an agenda or a mouth to feed. And to Bloomberg’s credit, they mention someone from RMI as a co-author.
“There is about 50 years of health studies showing that gas stoves are bad for our health, and the strongest evidence is on children and children’s asthma,” said Brady Seals, a manager in the carbon-free buildings program at the nonprofit clean energy group RMI and a co-author of the study. “By having a gas connection, we are polluting the insides of our homes.”
They never talk about the report’s funding. And maybe we can claim it’s implied, but no one ever says it. We get the word fear, endangering children, and it just happens to advance the Left’s energy agenda. One that has no basis in fact or science, either from the emissions side or the prescription side.
It’s all a scam, but the scheme has targeted gas cooking. Should we expect all the cooking show icons to write a letter of protest?
Closing note: If children’s safety were a true concern (including minority kids), the Feds wouldn’t have pushed COVID Jabs on them. There was never anything in the actual data (pick a state or nation) that justified it.
