{"id":64722,"date":"2023-01-14T06:49:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T11:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64722"},"modified":"2023-01-14T06:49:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T11:49:56","slug":"what-is-the-us-gas-stove-ban-really-aboutwhat-sounds-like-overeach-in-itself-is-actually-a-cover-for-something-potentially-far-far-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64722","title":{"rendered":"What is the US \u201cGas Stove Ban\u201d REALLY about?What sounds like overeach in itself, is actually a cover for something potentially far, far worse."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"before-post\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2023\/01\/12\/what-is-the-us-gas-stove-ban-really-about\/\"><span class=\"the-title\">What is the US \u201cGas Stove Ban\u201d REALLY about?<\/span><span class=\"subtitle\">What sounds like overeach in itself, is actually a cover for something potentially far, far worse.<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post_page-content post\">\n<p class=\"dropcap\">The Biden administration is apparently looking to ban gas stoves, calling them a \u201chidden danger\u201d. But while that sounds bad enough, a deeper dive shows \u2013 as usual \u2013 it\u2019s not really about what they say it\u2019s about.<\/p>\n<p>Talk of banning gas stoves and \u201cunregulated indoor air quality\u201d could be a Trojan horse designed to get even more \u201csmart\u201d monitoring technology into your home.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s jump in.<\/p>\n<h4>ARE GAS STOVES DANGEROUS?<\/h4>\n<p>Well, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2023\/01\/11\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-says-gas-stoves-can-cause-brain-damage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexandria Ocasio Cortez<\/a>, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2354433-gas-stoves-harm-our-health-and-the-climate-should-they-be-banned\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0New Scientist<\/a>\u00a0and million other outlets and pundits who started talking about it in the last two days, yes.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week near-identical articles from the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/biden-administration-considers-banning-gas-stoves-over-health-concerns\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=30195794\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0National Review,<\/a>\u00a0Bloomberg and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/01\/09\/business\/gas-stove-ban-federal-agency\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>\u00a0detail how the US Consumer Product Safety Commission will be opening\u00a0<em>\u201cpublic comment on the dangers of gas stoves sometime this winter\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The articles claim:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The emissions have been\u00a0<strong><u>linked to<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0illness, cardiovascular problems, cancer, and other health conditions. More than 12 percent of current childhood asthma cases are\u00a0<strong><u>linked to<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0gas stove use, according to peer-reviewed research published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health last month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now would be a good time to talk about the phrase \u201clinked to\u201d. It\u2019s always a good one to look out for in any mainstream publication. Journalists love it because it implies causation without stating it.<\/p>\n<p>Consider, one hundred per cent of serial killers have been\u00a0<strong>linked to<\/strong>\u00a0the ingestion of water and the wearing of shoes.<\/p>\n<p>If this manipulative use of language were not evidence enough of an agenda, the rather premature deployment of the race card proves it:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the US \u201cGas Stove Ban\u201d REALLY about?What sounds like overeach in itself, is actually a cover for something potentially far, far worse. The Biden administration is apparently looking to ban gas stoves, calling them a \u201chidden danger\u201d. But while that sounds bad enough, a deeper dive shows \u2013 as usual \u2013 it\u2019s not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[30195,33574,23436,24368,30384],"class_list":["post-64722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-bait-and-switch","tag-gas-stoves","tag-kit-knightly","tag-off-guardian-2","tag-smart-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64723,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64722\/revisions\/64723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}