Gas Lit

Another conspiracy theory comes true:

As a result of constant pushing, the announcement has just been made that new rules will be instituted on gas stoves. The Department of Energy has declared it will be finalizing these new standards despite Congressional efforts to halt this, as well as bi-partisan and public opposition. This all began in January 2023, when something of a trial balloon was sent up from the Consumer Products Safety Commission. Richard Trumka Jr. made the comment that we need to rethink the safety aspects of gas stoves. Within a day, there was a flood of media coming out to repeat the claim and to make it sound like the most common sense thing is to rid ourselves of these killer appliances. Then came the backlash, and it was so severe that just as quickly, we heard that there was, in fact, no call to eliminate these stoves. By the second day, the press came out and declared that no one is looking to ban gas stoves and that this was nothing more than a conservative conspiracy, cooked up by those who wanted to promote culture wars or some such excuse. The tell here was that we saw this whiplash 180 coverage take place not just in the media but at the very same outlets.

The media have short memories...