Congressman Bill Huizenga is among members of the U.S. House seeking to stop the U.S. Department of Energy from implementing rules that could affect the use of gas stoves. The Save Our Gas Stoves Act would block a proposed regulation that would require manufacturers of gas stoves to limit how much gas the stoves use. Opponents say this will result in longer cooking times. Huizenga tells us he’s been warning since the start of the Biden administration that a gas stove ban could be coming.
“There is email evidence, including through Jennifer Granholm’s office as well as Richard Trumka, that they have been talking about this since day one of the Biden administration,” Huizenga said. “This is a goal that they have had.”
Trumka is a U.S. Consumer Product Safety commissioner. Huizenga says to interfere with the manufacturing of gas stoves would not make sense for many. He’s gotten support in his calls to stop such regulations.
“We had some Democrats who are very interested in this as well because they see this as overreach, and this is shooting far beyond where it had been thought this could ever go. So, hopefully, we’re going to be able to put that back in a box.”
Huizenga has proposed an amendment for the Save Our Gas Stoves Act that would require regulators to disclose when they use studies that have any backing of the Chinese Communist Party. The Save Our Gas Stoves Act would prohibit the DOE from implementing its proposed gas cooking appliance standard.
