If you’ve been wanting to buy a gas stove but have been worried about the federal government’s determination under Biden to outlaw selling them and other nice things, relax. You’re now going to be cooking with gas.
I’m looking at a paragraph of one of the many executive orders issued by President Trump to get the government off our necks.
I refer, of course, to provision (f) of Section 2 of “Unleashing American Energy.”
To wit: “It is the policy of the United States … to safeguard the American people’s freedom to choose from a variety of goods and appliances, including but not limited to lightbulbs, dishwashers, washing machines, gas stoves, water heaters, toilets, and shower heads, and to promote market competition and innovation within the manufacturing and appliance industries.…”
Water heaters … toilets and shower heads … and gas stoves?
It shouldn’t be such a big deal to be able to keep buying this or that modern convenience. We’ve already invented and can mass-produce, mass-distribute these things. We have a functioning market economy. And most of us don’t want to be Amish.
But if you’ve got successive administrations hell-bent on returning us all to the Stone Age in order to control global weather and spare Mother Earth further inconvenience — well, adamant interruption of this trend is indeed a very big deal.
It seems that certain insanities will be stopped cold at least for the next four years. Maybe even beyond.
Industrial civilization: a good thing. Let’s keep it.
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6 replies on “Cooking with Gas”
The longer that the Weffy project is delayed, the longer the span over which the disasters that they have predicted would fall upon us do not. But Trump may bring disaster of a different sort, with his tariffs and bizarre proposals for Greenland, Panama, Canada, and Gaza. So perhaps a way will still be cleared for a neo-feudal order.
While, unsurprisingly, I believe that people who want to cook with natural gas should be allowed to do so, I encourage anyone using such appliances to make sure that they are functioning properly. Incomplete combustion produces compounds such as carbon monoxide. Of course, appliances of any other sort need likewise to be kept in proper working order, with dangers resulting otherwise.
Paul, this takes care of the Federal regs. It doesn’t stop the blue states, counties, and cities from keeping similar regulations, and if that shrinks the pool of potential buyers enough, the manufacturers will stop themselves.
Eliminate windmills and have mandatory coal mining that includes strip mining!
Why not? LOL
Poor Pam.
Have you noticed that Chinese strip mines are being used to produce those windmills?
Maybe some insanities will be stopped temporarily but the environmental extremists are still ensconced in government agencies and in countless activist groups. They won’t go quietly into that good night. It’s no time to relax. Get your gas appliances and ICE vehicles while you still can.