{"id":1839100,"date":"2023-02-08T03:03:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T08:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1839100"},"modified":"2023-02-08T03:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T08:04:47","slug":"democrats-keep-cranking-up-the-heat-on-the-gas-stove-debate-but-all-their-arguments-flame-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-keep-cranking-up-the-heat-on-the-gas-stove-debate-but-all-their-arguments-flame-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Keep Cranking Up The Heat On The Gas Stove Debate, But All Their Arguments Flame Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-keep-cranking-up-the-heat-on-the-gas-stove-debate-but-all-their-arguments-flame-out%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1839100&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Central Texas was struck by a severe storm in the first days of February. Around my home, an inch of ice had accumulated. Four days passed before massive oak branches fell, often at twice the normal weight. Our electricity was even cut off several times. However, my generator was not able to start and we were able, thankfully, to cook lunch for my elderly father-in-law using our gas stove.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I was grateful to own a stove that met my family\u2019s needs. But soon, should the Biden administration and some local and state governments have their way, the gas stove will go the way of the incandescent lightbulb and for the same rationale: the environment \u2014 though the case against the gas stove is far less clear.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Trumka Jr. (son of the late president AFL-CIO) was appointed by Biden to the Consumer Product Safety Commission in January. \u201chidden hazard.\u201d As a result, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2023\/jan\/15\/cautionary-tale-of-gas-stoves-and-letting-governme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">They might be banned<\/a> All across the country<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fascinating to see when the memo goes out among the left that something is <em>doubleplusungood.<\/em> As <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/01\/30\/the-left-wants-to-take-your-truck-because-its-big-and-scary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Recently, noted<\/a>, when leftists decide you can\u2019t have a big pickup truck, we\u2019re treated to a spate of articles, things that purport to be \u201cstudies,\u201d Comment pieces stating that big pickup trucks can be dangerous and dirty and are driven only by greedy, power-hungry and selfish people. Now, they\u2019re coming for our gas stoves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These lightbulbs. To save money and the environment, we were told to switch to incandescent bulbs. Compact fluorescent lights were first-generation replacement bulbs. They didn\u2019t last as long as the marketing suggested, and when penciling out the supposed savings in electricity, they didn\u2019t meet expectations \u2014 at least in my household. And my bulbs suffered a couple of failures, with acrid smoke pouring out of the bulb\u2019s base, one of which set the smoke detector off. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, mercury vapor in a bulb that has been broken was considered hazardous waste in certain jurisdictions. Halogen and LED bulbs came next \u2014 also very costly and highly prone to failure before their advertised 25,000 theoretical lifespans. Now, nearly 20 years later, LED bulbs seem to finally be living up to their promises.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stoves are more complicated. Natural gas is cheap in many parts of America. Gas ranges are half the price of electric ranges. California is the ground zero for the ban of gas stoves. In California, the cost to run a gas range over a year has been equal to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socalgas.com\/for-your-business\/energy-market-services\/gas-prices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$1.93 per month<\/a> Assuming that 2.34 therms are used per month at an average gas expense of 82.3c per therm California, where electricity prices are high for residential users <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/electricity\/monthly\/epm_table_grapher.php?t=table_5_06_b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The 11 months ending November 2022 saw a record high.<\/a> The average cost of a kilowatt hour (kWh) is 26.36 Cents (the highest in the United States and higher than any state other than Hawaii). <a href=\"https:\/\/home.howstuffworks.com\/gas-vs-electric-cooking.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">average electric range user<\/a> You would have to pay $11.14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In much of the U.S., natural gas is so inexpensive that gas ranges cost less than half as much to operate as an electric range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":563,"featured_media":1839103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[6628,17979,3896,3685,13569,7536,4060,14372],"class_list":["post-1839100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-arguments","tag-cranking","tag-debate","tag-democrats","tag-flame","tag-gas","tag-heat","tag-stove"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1839103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}