DOE rule could take half of gas stoves off market, new projection shows

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The Department of Energy's proposed conservation standards for new cooking devices would remove from the market about half the gas stove models used by consumers, the agency said in a new memo, igniting fresh controversy over the popular household appliance.

Officials have stressed that the proposed rule would not take effect for another three years if finalized.

It would also require both gas and electric stoves to meet certain efficiency standards in their design, including utilizing an optimized burner and improved grates. Additionally, it would ban any new stoves that use a “linear” power supply and extend an existing ban on products with a constant-burning pilot light.

Still, these details would likely do little to assuage U.S. consumers, who went to bat so heavily for the appliances last month over a Consumer Product Safety Commission member saying the agency would seek to ban them. The commission chairman was later forced to say that no ban was in store.

 

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Did the the corrupt press call this is a conspiracy theory?

Get outside and quit staring at your screens all day. Breathe some clean air for a change.

Sheesh people! It's sooo easy what they are doing. Incandescent light bulbs WERE NOT BANNED EITHER. They were simply efficiency'd out of existence. They're doing the exact same thing here. End result is the same, it's all semantics.

I was told this was a right wing conspiracy theory.

So if they aren't going to limit stove use why put something to limit use in the design? We know why!

Next administration will be busy righting a lot of wrongs

No stove Eat bugs Raw bugs Progress?

Lunacy.

Thought nobody was coming for your stoves?

The harangue against liberty is relentless. But fill the skies with (uncontrolled) burning vinyl chloride and EPA reports no pollution, as per usual.

what does jill cook on?

Bullshit

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