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The Biden-Harris administration insists that gas stoves are not being targeted. Don’t believe a word of it.

This kitchen controversy erupted in January 2023, when Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. told the media that his agency is investigating the safety of natural gas stoves and that a ban on them was "a real possibility." His remarks sparked a powerful consumer backlash against such government meddling, followed by assurances from the Biden-Harris administration that no stove restrictions were in the works.

Denials aside, Washington bureaucrats really were targeting gas stoves then — and they still are today. They are just getting sneakier in how they go about it.

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Gone — at least for now — are the direct regulatory assaults on the type of stove preferred by 38% of American households and the clear choice of serious cooks. Biden-Harris appointee Trumka Jr. has stopped talking about a ban, although it should be noted that he was never asked to leave his job and that CPSC’s investigation into gas stoves hasn’t been shut down.

The Biden-Harris administration continues to attack natural gas use with additional regulations. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

And another agency, the Department of Energy (DOE), which in February 2023 proposed a harsh new energy efficiency standard for stoves that was a thinly veiled crackdown on gas models in favor of electric versions, decided to go with a much less stringent standard that most gas stoves can also meet.

In other words, the two federal........

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