(Republican Senate News) – The senior official within the Biden administration who is responsible for heading up a brand new rule that pushes for households to ditch the cheap, affordable gas stoves they use in their homes for much more expensive electric stoves, recently revealed she’s clueless about how electric stoves are installed. This revelation was disclosed during testimony delivered before the House Oversight Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Economic Growth, and Regulatory Affairs earlier this week.
“The Department of Energy (DOE) on Feb. 1 published a proposed federal regulation that would require millions of household gas stoves in the United States to be modified for ‘energy efficiency,’ according to the rule’s text, which has provoked an outcry from Republicans. In testimony before the subcommittee, Geraldine Richmond, the Under Secretary of Energy for Science and Innovation who oversaw the rulemaking process, said she does not know how an electric stove, the suggested alternative under the rule, would be installed,” Arjun Singh of the Daily Caller wrote.
“If you’re not making a lot of money, you can’t afford the expensive one that will meet [the standard] so you’ve got to buy the other one … If you have a gas stove in your home right now, and there’s a gas line coming to it, you probably have a 110 connection,” Republican Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, who is currently the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, stated. “Do you know what it takes to put an electric stove in your home?” he asked Richmond.
“No, I don’t,” Richmond remarked in response.
“Here I do!” proclaimed Perry. “You’ve got to run a 220 line, which means you’ve probably got to get an electrician to do it … You’re going to have to hire someone to come in and drill holes in your floor and pull wire to the panel, and hook that whole thing up,” he went on to add, before asking the official if she had included the cost of installation in the estimate for the efficiency savings.
“We’re strongly in favor of consumer choice,” Richmond started to say, as Perry interjected, “Apparently not!”
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The Biden Admin is living in a fantasyland.
Biden’s DOE wants to takeaway 96% of gas stoves, yet their witness CAN’T ANSWER @RepScottPerry’s question regarding the steps a homeowner must take to switch from a gas to an electric stove. pic.twitter.com/B39qkCRP3J
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) July 18, 2023
Many Republicans believe that this new rule is simply just another aspect of the Biden administration’s climate policy agenda. And statements made by Richard Trumka Jr., the commissioner of U.S. Consumer Product Safety, who was appointed by Joe Biden, have not done much to prove otherwise.
“This is a hidden hazard,” Trumka asserted during a conversation with Bloomberg News in January. “Any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can be banned.”
Singh also reported, “Natural gas stoves are used in 40% of all homes in the United States and are cheaper, as well as quicker to use, than electric induction stoves, according to Bloomberg News. The rule proposed by DOE would require 50% of stoves to be upgraded to meet new energy standards, according to Richmond’s comments during the hearing. Perry also questioned whether Richmond’s office had consulted with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), an independent agency that regulates the transmission of electricity and natural gas across state lines, whether increasing the number of electric stoves in the country would exert pressure on the U.S. electricity grid.”
“We did not … In our energy conservation standards program, we did not consult with FERC,” Richmond declared.
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