For Immediate Release: August 8, 2023
Contact: Ryan Hite, Communications Director
DOE Quietly Revises Report; Essentially Zero Cost Benefit to Gas Stove Ban
Washington, D.C.: The Department of Energy this week quietly removed their bloated, fake “30% savings” statistic to support their proposed rule banning gas stoves. Their latest admitted numbers are now just 9-cents-per-month in savings to consumers. Not only does this lead us to mock any such ban, but this reminds us why keeping the executive branch in check is vital.
“The one-year cost savings of a gas stove ban (even taking at face value the DOE’s new numbers) wouldn’t even buy a dollar store item with sales tax,” said Phyllis Schlafly Eagles president Ed Martin. “It’s absolutely laughable, and that’s what we must do to them, even as bureaucrats try to sneakily adjust the numbers. The reality is that a ban on gas stoves wouldn’t save a single cent — it would cost Americans terribly both in financial burden and headaches.”
“Do not be fooled by ludicrous rules from power-hungry bureaucrats,” Martin continued. “This gas stove nonsense ought to be a hard wake-up call to Americans that not only will the federal government lie to us to get what they want, but the primary goal of our current slate of alphabet agencies is to grow their own size and influence. We already live in what feels like an Administrative State rather than a representative republic. They want to accelerate that even more.
“The executive branch wants to legislate by rule and opinion, not by duly passed bills in Congress. Whether it’s the ATF trying to nickel and dime Americans out of firearm ownership or the DOE attempting to regulate what home appliance you can have, we need to send them a resounding reminder that they are not the lawmakers of America.”
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