Biden’s Department of Energy introduces new standards for its OVENS and stoves
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Biden’s Department of Energy introduces new standards for its OVENS and stoves to ensure they are ‘efficient’ as Ron DeSantis removes all taxes on Florida gas stoves
- New proposed rule would increase efficiency on gas and electric stoves
- Follow the political clash after the agency suggested a safety ban
- Florida’s DeSantis announced no tax on gas stoves in his latest budget
The political standoff over gas cooktops is jumping from the frying pan to the fryer: The Energy Department issued new proposed efficiency standards at the same time Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a plan to subsidize gas cooktops.
The sweeping new efficiency standards were formally unveiled Wednesday in the Federal Register, setting new kilowatt-hour performance standards and applying to both electric and gas stoves.
The new standards would “save a significant amount of energy,” according to the proposed rule.
It found that the ‘lifetime energy savings for conventional consumer kitchen products purchased’ over a 30-year period ‘amounts to 0.46 quadrillion British thermal units (‘Btu’), or quads. This represents a saving of 3.4 per cent in relation to the energy use of these products in the case of an unchanged regulation.’
“They want to go after gas stoves,” said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, explaining his new budget, which would state no tax on gas stoves.
The rulemaking step, the product of a lengthy process, appeared in print Wednesday, the same day Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis introduced a new $115 billion state budget that includes a permanent end to state taxes. on gas stoves.
DeSantis was using the budget to make a political point, after outrage from conservatives boiled over after a study linked indoor gas stoves to health problems, prompting some to propose an indoor ban.
“We just added, because I think it’s necessary to do it: no permanent tax on gas stoves,” DeSantis said in Tallahassee. They want your gas stove and we are not going to let that happen.
‘It’s just the beginning of – this is ridiculous,’ he said.
“They want to go after the gas stoves,” he said.
A move earlier this month by the Consumer Product Safety Commission to consider a ban on gas stoves led conservative commentator Matt Walsh to say: ‘You’ll have to get my gas stove out of my cold, dead hands. ‘.
A new proposed rulemaking notice would tighten efficiency standards for gas and electric stoves and ranges
The feds say the standards will create savings for consumers and reduce pollution. It comes after DeSantis called for eliminating taxes on gas stoves amid culture clash over regulation.
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who discussed stoves on Twitter, defended her own use of a gas stove in her rental unit. “I think it’s funny the complete and utter Republican meltdown where they say ‘you can take my gas stove out of my cold dead hands’ or ‘how dare you talk about gas stoves? You have a gas stove'”, she said. saying.
According to the government’s analysis, the proposed rule would have a total consumer benefit of ‘$650 million to $1.71 billion, in addition to generating ‘significant environmental benefits’, with reductions in carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen, as well as methane. and nitrous oxide and mercury.
The proposal would reverse a “prescriptive standard” that prohibits steady-burn pilots for gas stoves, but the rule says its stricter standards would rule out continuous-burn pilots anyway.