Posted on 01/28/2023 9:37:00 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts
Like many sports fans, I was no fan of artificial grass but couldn’t see what led Washington policymakers to believe they had the power to ban the stuff. It dawned on me that if the feds believed they had the right to ban artificial grass, they probably believed they had the power to ban or regulate any activity or product they didn’t like...<snip>
Federal bureaucrats and elected officials have since justified that conclusion in hundreds of ways. Last month, the chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced at a “virtual” news conference sponsored by an amalgam of progressive public interest groups that the CPSC was seriously contemplating a ban on gas stoves for environmental and health reasons. Richard Trumka Jr., son of the former head of the AFL-CIO and a buddy of President Biden, told reporters that such a ban is “on the table,” bragging that a ban is “a powerful tool in our tool belt and it’s a real possibility here.”
Mr. Trumka is a regulator and banner from way back. He came out of the Maryland Attorney General’s Office. He spent time as a congressional staffer fighting to ban e-cigarettes. Still, it wasn’t until he was appointed head of the consumer agency that he discovered gas stoves represent an existential threat to the public.
His announcement was, as it turned out, a classic Washington “trial balloon,” and it was not well received by either those millions of Americans who prefer to “cook with gas” or those who still believe there are limits on the government’s inclination to meddle. The result was a firestorm of criticism from the right and the public.
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Still, I'm positing it for those who are following this possible issue.
We are like Canada now. The Imperial Executive can do almost anything they can think of.
Sad.
It's coming, you just got caught pushing too much, too soon.
"We shoved Obamacare down the Republicans' throats!" - Big, little Dick Trumka while Nanzi was reading the bill she had just gotten passed so she could find out what was in it.
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natural Gas is probably the cleanest of all since the rest take fossil fuels to support.
Uh, they didn’t really, really mean for that to be said out loud.
California is a different animal altogether. But I agree, it’s still coming. Unless something is done.
This is a classic trial balloon, or rather it would have been only that had New York City and California not proceeded merrily along the lines of formal prohibition. The Cult has been activated and they'll be back.
Tell that to the people in NY State - a co-worker’s Husband sells and installs Gas Hot Water Heaters and Gas Furnaces - they are also a major Propane supplier in upstate NY.
The Owner told his workers that they will probably be out of business by 2030.
Crazy Hochul was re-elected to destroy NY.
Did the out-of-control Statist Controllers have a Come-to-Jesus moment and repent?
Or are they just laying low for a while, licking their wounds, and planning to regroup and launch another assault?
We should expect them to launch a few more feints to test their enemy’s weaknesses. ( “enemy” meaning us Normals)
This is a classic trial balloon, or rather it would have been only that had New York City and California not proceeded merrily along the lines of formal prohibition. The Cult has been activated and they’ll be back.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that green zealots will have to implement a lot of economic pain before dopey Brad & Karen in the suburbs will wake up.
Eventually we’ll get the investments in the energy sector we need, we just aren’t there yet.
Hey, at least we are getting close with battery storage, only takes 3x50lb lithium ion batteries to match 1lb of propane for cooking.
Calculation
1lb propane = 21.5KBTU
2.5KWh lithium battery weiging 50lbs (SOK 12V)= 8.5KBTU (100% conversion efficency, really it’s about 90% useable)
21.5/8.5=2.53
You could buy a additional half size battery, but then you get BMS and discharge rate limitations for the smaller battery.
I guess that is the baffling part to me: efficiency. Propane is just so space efficient in terms of stored energy.
I can cook on gas or electric. Prefer induction electric to any other form (extremely rapid thermal response, quick cooling eye, very easy cleanup, and while outside, does not blow out), but we have to do a lot better to make a camping stove + battery that can match a propane camping stove and 2lbs of propane.
That’s one thing I have wondered about batteries and backup power though. For areas that lose power, propane and gasoline keeps people alive (whether hurricane alley or winter wonderlands). Batteries have a ways to go before they can match that portability. I am not a physicist, I can’t say if we ever can match that capacity or not. What we have is impressive — but not when you compare to fossil fuels, pound for pound).
Hopefully we can get close, because our unelected masters who control our elected masters, want us off their oil as soon as possible. Hopefully they are OK with us having portable and backup power. Some days, I am not so sure.
Eventually no portable hydrocarbons will be available. Hopefully we can get machines that convert our waste plastic to gasoline, for those “bad days”, or we can build illegal diesels to burn our used cooking oil in case of emergencies.
Hydrogen also seems to be picking up momentum, and while not a perfect replacement, it has potential to mostly replace what we do with fossil fuels.
Till then, it is pretty difficult to make a high grade gasoline or burnable gas (well, there is methane...). Those who would say it isn’t, where is my Mr. Gasoline that can take in garbage and push out 104 octane?
Will they also ban hot water heaters?
BOTH Trumka’s need to be sleeping with Jimmy Hoffa. Fat little union Thug and his Retard son need to stop wasting Oxygen.
I’m with you. Union thugs tick me off.
***Richard Trumka Jr., son of the former head of the AFL-CIO and a buddy of President Biden,***
AFL-CIO also represents the IBEW International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. So he would naturally push for the electrical industry to force people on gas to get electrical products for heating and cooking.
Hot water doesn't need heating.
Kidding. Sorry...I had to go there. =;^)
Cold showers and dirty dishes and clothing will be the trend of the future.
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