Make no mistake here, folks: what we just saw with the gas-stove trial balloon is part of a process, a long-range plan.
Progressive cities such as Berkeley, San Francisco and New York City have already banned gas stoves and other appliances in new buildings. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul this week proposed a ban on gas equipment including stoves in new small buildings in 2025 and larger ones in 2028.
Come 2030, New Yorkers won’t be allowed to replace their gas stoves with new ones if they break down. “As you begin making a transition, everyone will have to switch out appliances,” a state official explained. This is how the left’s green-energy “transition” will work for all things. Come 2035, New Yorkers and Californians won’t be able to buy new gasoline-powered cars either.
The Biden Administration is also aiding and abetting the anti-gas stove cause. Last year it filed an amicus brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals supporting a gas ban by Berkeley, Calif. The departments of Justice and Energy argued that cities and states should be able to exercise police powers to prohibit the use of “dangerous or unsafe items.” Why would the federal government weigh in on a local regulatory case, if not for ideological climate solidarity?
Rest assured, it’s not just about Climate Change (formerly Global Warming, formerly Global Cooling, formerly The Weather)™ alone. That’s just cover, a ruse. Rather, the CC agenda itself is part and parcel of the tyrant’s eternal ambition to let nothing escape his gaze or his grasp.
Progressives claim that gas stoves produce pollutants that are harmful to human health. But pollution comes from cooking with poor ventilation, not from natural gas. Electric range-tops have the “hidden hazard” of potential burns, to borrow Mr. Trumka’s words.
There really is a culture war coming over gas stoves, and everything else involving fossil fuels, because climate has become for the left a matter of core cultural identity. Progressives want to impose their values on the lifestyle of everyone else, including in the kitchen. If subsidies don’t work, coercion follows. When they can’t win the political debate, they resort to brute government force. They really are coming for your stove.
Along with everydamned thing else. Remember: there is NOTHING they won’t try to fuck with, take over, control, and ultimately, ban. Nothing. It’s who they are, it’s what they do.
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It’s NEVER about what they say it’s about. So it’s not about Climate Change or Health or Burn Hazards or any of the other malarkey they claim to care about.
America is going to be deliberately and maliciously turned into a Failure for the sin of Opposing Communism, promoting Freedom and Markets and sinking the Soviets.
We are going to be turned into Maoist China as surely as Xi is turning post-Maoist China back into Maoist China.
They want themselves as King, Nobles and Clergy and the rest of us as Serfs. If not all but 500 Million of us dead. Don’t misunderstand that. Those that want humanity reduced to 500 Million are the kind ones. Some want humanity blotted out altogether.
It’s ALWAYS about them Getting More Power and Control.
“Some want humanity blotted out altogether.”
Excepting theirselves of course.
Marxist murder counts have always been held low by resistance. Otherwise the death toll would be in the billions instead of the hundred millions.