Marjorie Taylor Greene Slams Biden Admin on Possible Stove Ban: 'Idiots'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday slammed President Joe Biden's administration over reports that a gas stove ban is being considered.

The story originated in a Bloomberg report which found that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) was weighing a possible ban on gas stoves because of their adverse health effects. According to recent studies, 13 percent of current cases of childhood asthma can be linked to air pollutants that are released by gas stoves. The pollutants have also been linked to the worsening of other respiratory conditions.

Some of the pollutants released by the stoves include nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide and fine particulate matter. Their adverse effects are worsened in homes without sufficient ventilation capabilities.

In an interview with Bloomberg, CPSC head Richard Trumka Jr. called gas stoves a "hidden hazard" and said that a ban is a possibility.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/marjorie-taylor-greene-slams-biden-admin-on-possible-stove-ban-idiots/ar-AA16bhOD

MTG's head was stoved in long time ago.

[underpants]

1. And she wants lead back In gasoline

[jmowreader]

2. Probably paint too

[Ocelot II]

4. She clearly spent her childhood eating paint chips

and enjoying the piquant flavor of all that lead.

[Genki Hikari]

30. I'm sure she wants it

To have more flavor in the paint chips she's been eating.

[cilla4progress]

3. Without knowing more details,

a flat ban on gas stoves strikes me as stupid, too!

I don't believe it is under consideration. Just not something a sane admin - such as Biden's (or any Dem) would consider!

[Ocelot II]

5. The State of New York is considering banning gas hookups in new construction.

https://news.yahoo.com/ny-governor-proposes-first-ever-statewide-ban-on-gas-hookups-in-new-buildings-210023080.html So, yes, it is being considered at some state levels. I doubt it will pass at the federal level, though.

[mobeau69]

7. In new construction is the key.

[Ocelot II]

8. Of course; nobody is going to require millions of people to switch

to electric or other heat for their existing homes, other buildings. I have gas heat, a gas water heater and a gas stove; they haven't killed me yet, but in any event I can't afford to replace my furnace and appliances and I doubt many other people could either.

[mobeau69]

11. I'll give 100 to 1 odds she didn't mention that existing installations would be grandfathered in.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

6. If this was done, I'm 98% sure it would only be a ban on putting them in newly-built homes

And perhaps some other specific conditions.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. That's what's being done in Seattle right now

My sister has a gas stove so their house is grandfathered in. New homes can no longer have natural gas.

[newdayneeded]

16. Wait, What? What about the furnace?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. I assume likewise

Houses that already have them are okay. Not allowed in new construction.

[newdayneeded]

27. the other option would be electric baseboard

heat. That is VERY expensive to use.

[maxsolomon]

28. Not accurate.

I live in Seattle and we replaced an oil-burning furnace with an ELECTRIC heat pump. That pump is powered by hydroelectric power.

Do I have a propane grill OUTSIDE where the health impact is null? Yes, I do.

[dsc]

32. Nope I have a heat pump

and it works fine. But I do live in an area that has warmer winters (NC)

[Bengus81]

22. Doubt they'd be banned because of how the gas is vacated from a home through the flu

No comparison to a gas stove.

[ProfessorGAC]

24. My Take, As Well

A low percentage of gas stove users have externally vented cooking hoods.
I know exactly zero people who do, including us. Yeah, that's anecdotal, but given how many houses I've been into the last 25 years or so, it's still a big number.
Banning furnaces would be contradictory to the reason given for banning stoves.

[sarisataka]

12. It is under consideration

And "all options are on the table"
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/09/business/gas-stove-ban-federal-agency/index.html

[SYFROYH]

9. Cooking with gas is saying for a reason.

Hopefully, any policy will only require warning labels and not ban them.

[Sogo]

23. This is what I thought when I first heard of this proposed ban.

Some things can't be cooked except on an open flame.

People should just be given a warning about the likelihood of adverse effects, and then let them decide. A ban resulting from 13% incidents seems like overcompensating.

[GenXer47]

10. if range vents actually ventilated

How many of us have those stupid range fans that just blow air into the kitchen and make everything worse?
When I finally witnessed a real range vent in operation, I was astonished at how you could cook like a madman in the summer, and not heat up the kitchen.

[mwooldri]

14. This. Ventilation is key.

If you have a gas cooktop, definitely vent it outside. Unsure how same works for gas oven, though I think those should be obsolete.

[ProfessorGAC]

26. Same Thing

Last edited Tue Jan 10, 2023, 07:01 PM - Edit history (1)

A forced air external vent still exerts a negative pressure around the stove.
Since the exhaust gasses are hot they'll rise toward the intake and get drawn out.
Commercial kitchens rely on the hoods to exhaust oven gasses. (I worked as a janitor in a banquet hall in HS & college. I can still see that kitchen clearly in my mind. )
Funny story: I came in one morning with the burglar alarm going. I used the payphone in the vestibule to call the cops & shut off the alarm. I went in with the cop to unlock doors. Perps were long gone.
They busted in by peeling the sheet metal away from the cowling on one of the exhaust fans and cam down onto the hood.
These geniuses stepped onto the suspended ceiling and crashed through to the floor. There was blood on the kitchen quarry tile. (Not a trivial amount.)
The door to the bar was locked from the bar side. Could not get it jimmied.
Went into the hall, stood on a banquet table and unscrewed the transom over one set of double doors. Solid walnut. They underestimated the weight and it fell, breaking the table. More blood on the floor.
They get to the bar. Steal tip money but no cash in the register.
They try to remove the smaller transom into the back room, by standing on the fold over. It breaks, and they fall. More blood. Finally get the transom off and it's decorative. There's a concrete wall above the door.
Like Pesci & Stern in Home Alone!
They got away with about a hundred bucks but did $8,000 of damage. In 1975! Probably $25,000 today.
Finally they tried to break into the office by prying the upper part of the Dutch door. Guess where the alarm trip was.
They took an utter beating for $100. Dopes!

[mwooldri]

29. Dang!

Thank you for sharing

[regnaD kciN]

13. Keep in mind that Marge Traitor Greene was also the one...

…who declared she was against solar power because no one wants all their appliances to stop working as soon as the sun goes down.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

40. And airplanes, don't forget the airplanes...

https://hillreporter.com/watch-marjorie-taylor-greene-posits-that-electric-airplanes-will-run-on-slave-labor

[Meadowoak]

17. Get an induction range, I got one a while back, absolutely love it.

Paid around $1100 at Lowe's.

[Blue Owl]

19. Hey Marge, stick your head in the oven and show 'em how tough you are

[JanLip]

21. LOL

[Initech]

20. What? Does she want to bring back asbestos too?

Fucking moron.

[Deep State Witch]

25. My gas stove almost killed me last Christmas

Christmas of 2021 - I was roasting a small turkey for me, my husband, and my elderly aunt. My husband and I started acting really stupid. I mean, more than usual. Then an alarm went off. We thought it was the smoke alarm. It wasn't. It was the carbon monoxide alarm. Our downstairs CO detector, which measures PPM, said that we were just below the danger zone!

Fortunately, it was fairly warm that Christmas, so we opened up all of the windows to air the place out while the turkey finished. Needless to say, we went out the next day and shopped for a new stove/oven.

[Genki Hikari]

31. I'm not enthused about getting rid of gas stoves myself

If you've ever lived through a blizzard or in a hurricane zone, then you know the value of a gas stove when the power goes out. If you have electric stoves, you can't heat up food or boil water. That last part is especially concerning, because boiling water is sometimes a necessity if you've just been through a hurricane.

I'd be extremely uncomfortable with living in a place like the Dakotas or the Gulf Coast without a gas stove.

[dembotoz]

33. she is right...all good intentions aside

must we write gop talking points for them?
I live in a very red area.
they actually believed obama was gonna come in silent blackhawk helicopters in the middle of the night to steal their guns.
now they will claim that the libtards are gonna drive up in their fbi trucks and steal grandmas gas stove.
won't matter that grandma switched to electric stove back in the 80s......

this will make for easy slogans that the gop pols can throw out at events that don't make their supporters think too hard.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

34. You can't fix stupid

So why should we try? We can be as good as we want and they'll still make up something.

[dembotoz]

36. walking in the cow pasture you at least want to avoid stepping in the shit

all i am suggesting

[Kaleva]

38. Many rural people don't have natural gas. They have propane.

[Vinca]

35. I knew that one would gin up the crazies.

[Kaleva]

37. I don't think this applies to LP gas stoves

All the articles I've read about this said natural gas.

[Torchlight]

39. I'm guessing Rep. Greene wrote her slam by LED rather than CFL bulbs or candlelight.

I'm also guessing she righteously railed about that changeover as well to her Crossfit coworkers who pretended to be concerned, hoping that might quiet her down a bit.