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Official Behind Gas Stove Crackdown Admits She Has No Clue What It Takes To Install An Electric Stove
Daily Caller ^ | 7/18/23 | Arjun Singh

Posted on 07/18/2023 10:59:27 PM PDT by CFW

A senior Biden administration official responsible for overseeing a new rule that would push households to purchase electric stoves over cheaper gas-powered stoves said that she does not know how an electric stove is installed during testimony before the House Oversight Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Economic Growth, and Regulatory Affairs on Tuesday.

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.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: ban; doe; gasstove; idiots; shesstupid; stupid; stupidityondisplay
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“The bigger problem (by far) is that these know-nothing unelected political hack regulators think that they can lord over us.”

They’re like a cabal of Barney Fifes. They get a little bit of power and it goes to their equally little heads. They’re the ones that would be squealing “we ver just following orders” if or when justice is ever handed out to them.


41 posted on 07/19/2023 6:09:09 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: texas booster

I live with 60 amps and everything is electric, not exactly the specs for Thanksgiving dinner in winter while taking showers.


42 posted on 07/19/2023 6:20:07 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That she is.

Except she doesn’t know how to even set up an electric stove.

AOC-level brain power. Biden Administration on display.


43 posted on 07/19/2023 6:26:05 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: CFW

She is a chemistry professor. Wouldn’t know much about things like actual real world applications of government dictates. .


44 posted on 07/19/2023 6:35:19 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Tell It Right

We have a 1,600 sq ft 1952 ranch house that came with a 40 amp panel! Imagine the fun that caused. About ten years ago, we finally did some remodeling and upgraded to (I think) 300 amps. Maybe 400 for future-proofing.

The utility had to drop new conductors from the pole to the house, we needed a new mast, a new panel, all new breakers, as well as revamping a lot of the tired old wiring in the house and LOTS of new circuits to meet regs. We went from four circuits to 20.


45 posted on 07/19/2023 6:36:18 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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To: CFW

People talk about keeping government out of our bedrooms, and rightly so. How about keeping it out of our kitchens as well? And our bathrooms and garages. And keeps its hands off out thermostats. If the government reaches that far into our daily lives, that is, at best, authoritarianism.


46 posted on 07/19/2023 7:19:42 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
In the past year, the most I've pulled from the grid at any point in time is 25.6kW. That was only for a brief moment in December, but that's an example of how much an all-electric home can pull from the grid when charging an EV while also trying to keep the house warm on a freezing cold day (we had a 9F cold spell last December, which is very cold to us in Alabama).

And that's in Alabama, where heating an all-electric home in the winter isn't nearly as taxing as it would be up north (again while charging an EV if the Dims get their way in making everybody switch to EV's). And of course, that's while doing other things too (perhaps at that point in time not only was my home heater running and my EV was charging, but my wife and I may have also been cooking with our electric stove, perhaps my hybrid water heater was also running, and lights, etc.). The grid simply can't handle all of that if everybody was all-electric. Especially if they don't also go solar and produce most of the electricity they need (which I do, but about 20% of my power has to be pulled from the grid, so even I am an example of how the grid can't handle all of us going all-electric even if everybody lived in a good place for home solar like I do).

47 posted on 07/19/2023 7:35:53 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: CFW

It’s no surprise about anybody in the Biden administration they all get instructions from the puppet master party bosses.

Sucking up goes a long way in D.C..


48 posted on 07/19/2023 8:21:55 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

WHAT guarantee is there that your local power company can provide ALL customers with such????


49 posted on 07/19/2023 9:24:54 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Liz

She has passed ‘The Peter Principle” of advancement


50 posted on 07/19/2023 9:25:31 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

So, why aren’t those who wish to bring about restrictive regulation required to learn the details of what their regulation would require? I’m only high school educated, but know enough about what what changing from gas to electric appliances would require. Some things are better operated by one system than the other & here is where common sense should rule, not some uneducated government bureaucrat. Personally, I have both in my home, dictated by what works better within certain circumstances. If only the people in our government were hired,appointed, or elected to serve was someone who knew what he or she were doing, it would be a huge help.


51 posted on 07/19/2023 10:44:23 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: CFW

How much more stupidity will Americans tolerate.


52 posted on 07/19/2023 10:45:48 AM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: Chgogal

Well, America has become a masterful admixture of arrogance and stupidity, so….


53 posted on 07/19/2023 10:47:58 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (“We should not assume civilization is robust”)
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To: Chgogal

“How much more stupidity will Americans tolerate.”


I started asking that question a couple of decades ago. When Obama was elected I looked around as everyone exclaimed over his “wonderfulness” and realized that the majority of the people in our nation are blinded to reality.


54 posted on 07/19/2023 11:21:58 AM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: CFW

I was on the Montrose El Platform in Chicago following the election thinking the same thing.


55 posted on 07/19/2023 11:24:22 AM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: ridesthemiles
#49: "WHAT guarantee is there that your local power company can provide ALL customers with such????"

Good point. And it certainly occurred to me. How can an electric utility suddenly double their ampacity to every customer?
Start at the power plant and so on down the chain. Not doable. The real environmental damage would never be offset or recouped.

56 posted on 07/19/2023 3:28:13 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Radio broadcaster Kyle Sandilands has unleashed on Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews as he moves to ban all new homes in the state from using gas.

https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/kyle-sandilands-smashes-victoria-premier-daniel-andrews-for-banning-gas-in-new-homes-from-2024/news-story/0c544319be57dbd9010ccdc422876a77


57 posted on 07/27/2023 8:31:23 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: threefinger

“You can heat your food on an electric stovetop but if you want to create food-as-art, you need gas.”

There’s a 0.001% argument. lol


58 posted on 07/27/2023 8:42:58 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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