Biden’s Energy Department introduces new standards for your OVENS and cooking tops
Biden’s Energy Department introduces new standards for your OVENS and cooking tops to ensure they are ‘efficient’ – as Ron DeSantis removes all taxes on Florida gas stoves
- New proposed rule would tighten efficiency on gas and electric stoves
- It follows political clash after agency suggested safety ban
- Florida’s DeSantis announced no taxes on gas stoves in his latest budget
The political clash over gas stoves is jumping from the frying pan into the fryer – with the Energy Department issuing new proposed efficiency standards at the same time Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a plan to subsidize gas stoves.
The sweeping new efficiency standards were given formal notice Wednesday in the Federal Register, sets new performance standards in Kilowatts per hour, and applies to both electric and gas stoves.
The new standards ‘would save a significant amount of energy,’ according to the proposed rule.
It found that the ‘lifetime energy savings for consumer conventional cooking products purchased’ in a 30-year period ‘amount to 0.46 quadrillion British thermal units (‘Btu’), or quads. This represents a savings of 3.4 percent relative to the energy use of these products in the case without amended standards.’
‘They want to go after the gas stoves,’ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said when spelling out his new budget, which would state there are no taxes on gas stoves
The rule-making step, the product of a long process, happened to appear in print Wednesday, the same day that Florida Gov Ron DeSantis unveiled a new $115 billion state budget that includes a permanent end to state taxes on gas stoves.
DeSantis was using the budget to drive home a political point, after conservative outrage boiled over after a study linked indoor gas stoves to health problems – prompting some to propose an indoor ban.
‘We just added, because I think it needs to be done – no tax permanently on gas stoves,’ DeSantis said in Tallahassee. ‘They want your gas stove and we’re not going to let that happen.’
‘It’s just the principle of – this is ridiculous,’ he said.
‘They want to go after the gas stoves,’ he said.
A move earlier this month by the Consumer Product Safety Commission to consider a ban on gas stoves prompted conservative commentator Matt Walsh to say: ‘You will have to pry my gas stove from my cold dead hands.’
A new notice of proposed rulemaking would tighten efficiency standards for gas and electric stoves and cooktops
The feds say the standards will bring consumer savings and reduce pollution. It comes after DeSantis called for eliminating taxes on gas stoves amid a cultural clash over regulation
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who got into a Twitter spat over the stoves, defended her own use of a gas stove in her rental unit. ‘I do think it’s funny the absolute, utter Republican meltdown where they’re like ‘you can take my gas stove from my cold dead hands,’ or, ‘how dare you talk about gas stoves, you have a gas stove” she said.
According to the government’s analysis, the proposed rule would have a total consumer benefit of ‘$0.65 billion to $1.71 billion – as well as yielding ‘significant environmental benefits,’ with reduction in carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides, as well as methane and nitrous oxide and mercury.
The proposal would roll back one ‘prescriptive standard’ that prohibits constant burning pilots for gas cooking tops – but the rule says its tighter standards would rule out continuously burning pilots anyway.
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