Guest Post by Kit Knightly
The Biden administration is apparently looking to ban gas stoves, calling them a “hidden danger”. But while that sounds bad enough, a deeper dive shows – as usual – it’s not really about what they say it’s about.
Talk of banning gas stoves and “unregulated indoor air quality” could be a Trojan horse designed to get even more “smart” monitoring technology into your home.
Let’s jump in.
Are gas stoves dangerous?
Well, according to Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, the New Scientist and million other outlets and pundits who started talking about it in the last two days, yes.
Earlier this week near-identical articles from the National Review, Bloomberg and CNN detail how the US Consumer Product Safety Commission will be opening “public comment on the dangers of gas stoves sometime this winter”.
The articles claim:
The emissions have been linked to illness, cardiovascular problems, cancer, and other health conditions. More than 12 percent of current childhood asthma cases are linked to gas stove use, according to peer-reviewed research published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health last month.
Now would be a good time to talk about the phrase “linked to”. It’s always a good one to look out for in any mainstream publication. Journalists love it because it implies causation without stating it.
Consider, one hundred per cent of serial killers have been linked to the ingestion of water and the wearing of shoes.
If this manipulative use of language were not evidence enough of an agenda, the rather premature deployment of the race card proves it:
Senator Cory Booker (D., N.J.) and Representative Don Beyer (D., Va.) wrote a letter to the agency last month urging the commission to address the issue and calling the harmful emissions a “cumulative burden” on black, Latino and low-income households.
So, will they ban them?
Actually, probably not.
Considering that, according to Bloomberg, some 40% of US homes use gas stoves to cook, an outright ban would be impractical to the point of madness. You can’t criminalise 40% of the country. It would be almost unenforceable.
Perhaps they might try a “phasing out”, as they plan for petrol cars in California.
But most likely of all is that this was never really about banning stoves in the first place.
OK, so what’s it really about?
What we’re seeing here looks to be your classic bait-and-switch. Having established a “problem”, the powers that be suggest a solution they have no intention of ever carrying out (the more unreasonable the better).
When this measure is inevitably rejected by the public, the government will then proceed to suggest – or pay an NGO to suggest to them – a “compromise” measure.
The compromise is no compromise at all, of course, but actually what they wanted to do from the beginning. Nevertheless, the whole process is sold in the media as a victory for whichever party happens to be in opposition, and cited as evidence that “the system works”.
Tellingly, as I am writing this, Biden has already “ruled out a ban due to backlash”, and Vox were already using the “compromise” a lot in an article they published yesterday.
However, what that “compromise” would be in this case isn’t clear at first, you have to do a little digging.
One clue is present in the National Review article [emphasis added]:
The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers argues that cooking produces harmful emissions regardless of the kind of stove used. “Ventilation is really where this discussion should be, rather than banning one particular type of technology,” Jill Notini, a vice president at the association, told Bloomberg. “Banning one type of a cooking appliance is not going to address the concerns about overall indoor air quality. We may need some behavior change, we may need [people] to turn on their hoods when cooking.”
And you’ll find another in the abstract of the original report on “Cooking With Gas, Household Air Pollution, and Asthma: Little Recognized Risk for Children”, published in the Journal of Environmental Science in April 2021:
The impact [of gas stove cooking] on children can be substantial because […] indoor air is unregulated.
“Ventilation is where this discussion should be”, after all “cooking produces harmful emissions regardless of the kind of stove” and a ban wouldn’t address “concerns about overall indoor air quality” which is currently “unregulated”.
Do you see where this is going?
It’s not about gas stoves, and it’s not about asthma – it’s about “indoor air pollution”, and more importantly how they plan on “regulating” it.
In one of those startling coincidences we’ve all got so used to witnessing in modern geopolitics, just as the US is talking about indoor air quality because of gas stoves, other countries around the world are doing the same thing for totally different reasons.
Singapore is considering new regulations on indoor air quality too, but because of formaldahyde.
Last month The Conversation was running articles claiming “indoor air pollution kills”, while Sir Chris Whitty, the UK’s chief medical officer, was “demanding action on indoor air pollution”.
On Monday, in a Guardian lifestyle piece purportedly about scented candles, Svetlana Stevanovic calls indoor air quality a “going concern”.
Two days ago The Tyee, an “independent” Canadian magazine which receives some funding from the Canadian government, ran an op-ed headlined:
We Need a Revolution in Clean Indoor Air
Which attempts to link improving indoor air quality to “ending Covid” (whilst making sure to sufficiently fluff the vaccines, of course).
Just yesterday the Irish Times published an article about the dangers of poor indoor air quality.
In a rather interesting piece of timing, the air hygiene technology company AeroClean and Molekule, a market leader for air purifiers, finalised a public stock merger…also just yesterday.
Two days ago it was announced IKEA would be selling their own smart air monitors, the same day Samsung announced their new “smart air purifier”.
Earlier today Chinese tech giant Xiaomi issued a media release about their new smart air monitoring technology.
A recent report expects the global air monitor technology market to swell to nearly 6 billion dollars in the next three years.
But I’m sure this is all just a coincidence.
Where does this lead?
Well, if I had to guess I would suggest some new “smart” technology is coming that will monitor air quality and indoor C02 emissions. Like smart electricity and water meters, but for your air.
Interestingly, the World Economic Forum agrees with me, publishing an article on their website last July headlined “Indoor air pollution: What causes it and how to tackle it”, which claims:
indoor air pollutants can now be detected with more precise, efficient, and compact sensors thanks to advances in environmental sensing technology. As a result, intelligent home systems may soon use sensors like these to keep track of indoor air quality and notify the ventilation system before dangerous levels are reached.
As part of “backing down” from the stove ban, they will introduce a new bill which sees “smart air monitors” become mandatory in all new-build houses, hotels and rented accommodation.
Just like smart electricity meters, smart air monitors would almost certainly be used to harvest huge amounts of data and give states or corporations the ability to control your home.
If your “indoor air” isn’t “clean” enough; if you use your stove too much, burn too many scented candles or emit too much co2, expect to get penalized in some fashion until you learn how to be more responsible.
More smart technology, more monitoring, and ultimately more control.
So, while it’s possible the gas stove ban talk will resolve itself into the cliche new tax or fines or some other petty scheme for bilking the many out of their wages, the signs are certainly there it might be something more sinister.
Meanwhile, expect to keep seeing reports on gas stoves damaging the climate, or stories about poor indoor air quality making covid worse.
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“..calling the harmful emissions a “cumulative burden” on black, Latino and low-income households”
Easy peasy solution:
Ban natural gas appliance use for all who claim minority status.
Problem solved, take away racist nat gas from further harming the non y t s.
CONTROL!
Typical liberal play…cite some nonsense to convince the dumb Americans to go along with, all while hiding their real agenda. This will allow them to be more involved with matters inside ones personal home. It is only the beginning.
I like to use the liberal playbook against them. For example, a study found that windmills negatively affect the hearing of people who live around them. This is about the children…the children…ban windmills!!!
Oh my bad..liberals don’t care about children…maybe those pesky kids should have been aborted! Well dammit I think these big solar farms should be banned because they affect the migration of birds, among other things. https://www.vox.com/2021/8/18/22556193/solar-energy-biodiversity-birds-pollinator-land . The article states “…Scientists aren’t entirely sure why this is, but one prevailing idea, known as the “lake-effect” hypothesis, is that migrating waterfowl making their way through the arid landscape mistake the installations for bodies of water and crash into them. ” The madness..surely we have to stop building solar farms!
*Edit: I realized I cited a Vox article which tries to continue to justify solar farms regardless of the issues, just proving the hypocrisy of the left
Windmills are killing bats and eagles but they don’t care about that.
Not that there’s a problem with indoor air quality in general, but when the air inside is stale or smoky, I prefer dumb technology: open the fucking window!
To simple Bob! No money or control under your simple solution! And what if your neighbors barn is on fire. All that smoke in your house making your indoor air quality worse. We need Big Govt help for sure. Save us Joey!!
Air the joint out and clean or change your furnace filter . Gee that sounds hard to do if your a household of faggots drag queens and lesbians!
Now you know the rest of the story
It’s about cutting us off from cheap natural gas and having us starve or freeze, whichever comes first.
Europe’s wonderful leadership is willing to buy your gas for a lot more money than you are paying. So gas bad, so SADs for you.
Big Brother will be watching you cook. And clean, and shower, and dress, etc.
You want the truth? In the not too distant future you will be expected to use NG or propane to run your own personal household fuel cell that generates electricity for your property. Gas appliances such as gas stoves will be a drain on NG that the PTB want you to use generating electricity. You can down this and disagree all day long, it won’t change the fact that they want us to be the grid and Big oil says that is how it will go down. Might as well get used to cooking with electric.
So I use propane to power an expensive (platinum) fuel cell which produces DC electricity which runs an inverter which produces AC electricity which I use to power my (worthless) electric stove.
Instead of a propane stove.
Good thinking. Although thermodynamics might not agree.
“Roundup everybody for dinner!” Brought To You By Monsanto, now Bayer
Indoor Air Pollution == it’s what causes all the sudden death, suddenly.
Read an obit for a coincidence this morning. The 61 yo victim loved gardening.
Good point. Nor is there any discussion about dying suddenly.
I have been hearing enough about “good ventilation” lately that I think the author is on to something.
Probably all government officials need better ventilation!
hollowpoint
For effective ventilation, through and through.
Virtually all restaurants and take out food shops run gas stoves, probably along the order of 99.9%
This is a further constriction on food availability.
They don’t want people to travel (airline failures/no gas powered vehicles) and they want them dependent on the distribution system for food that they control.
This is all just a slow tightening of the noose.
Doesn’t matter.
The companies that make these stoves are slowing production way down already.
They have already made them so you CAN’T light them with a match.
Once the companies stop production, won’t matter that the Feds or State govts pass a law or not.
They be gone.
Started doing IAQ sampling around 2001 or so. Back then, it was for mold. Now, everybody is screaming about “PM2.5”, which are particulates <2.5 microns (µm). This dovetails into the gas crap.
BTW, bought 10+ Molekules for remediation jobs. They work OK, but nowhere come close to Austin Air units. Plus, you have to do a filter change every 6 months ($125+) with a Molekule. Austin Air, it's every 5 years at $450 or so.
I forsee WiFi IAQ monitors will be mandated just like smoke detectors.
Before I even read the article, I was assuming this is a setup for more monitoring devices.
Combine PM2.5 with radon to achieve the requisite conclusion….
Particle radioactivity linked to pollution-associated heart attack and stroke death
Particle radioactivity, a characteristic of air pollution that reflects the colorless, odorless gas radon found in fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution, increased the risk of death from cardiovascular disease, especially from heart attack or stroke, according to findings of a new study.
https://newsroom.heart.org/news/particle-radioactivity-linked-to-pollution-associated-heart-attack-and-stroke-death
What a relief, it’s not the kill shot after all!
The other day I was talking to my best friend who is of similar political persuasion. He is also a big church-going Christian. We disagree about a lot of religious things. For example, his church uses grape juice in communion, a practice I find heretical, and I let him know I would NEVER attend a Southern Baptist Church or any of the other “Fundamentalist” church that does that. So, what does this have to do with gas stoves, you ask?
We were talking about the gas stoves when I asked him, ” Do you realize we’re at the point where lots of people need a bullet in their head? Dead troublemakers don’t cause any more problems.” He didn’t like that very much, and said that everyone needs a second chance.
I asked, “Do you know anything about narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths? Your Church and everybody else’s church has them, and they’re the ones who have caused all of the confusions since A.D. 325.” He asked,” So what is your point?”
I next asked, ” Do you think God can fix one of those fucked-up people that he created to begin with?” Man he got pissed.
My point is that if these people aren’t kicked out of the same existence we’re sharing with them, they will make our lives a living hell. And Christianity doesn’t have a damn thing to do with solving that problem. But a bullet in the back of the head sure does.
I think many people can’t accept the reality of the fact that soon one half of the country is going to be outright killed, imprisoned in gulags, and if they’re lucky, they get the hell out of the country alive. I just don’t want my side to fall into that category.
You might want to actually read the Bible. not just snippets
I do. Now, did you know that the 6th Trumpet Judgement happened on April of 1986?
How do you know that?
“…And the angel blew his trumpet, and a star fell from the sky, blazing like a torch. Its name was Wormwood, and it fell into the waters. Those waters and all of the waters and springs that fed those waters also became Wormwood. There were many who drank the waters that died, because those waters were made bitter.”
The Ukrainian word for “wormwood” is “Chernobyl”.
Hey whatever you are, did ya know Solomon supposedly used demons to build his Great Temple?
I have heard Solomon abandoned wisdom for witchcraft at the end, but I have not read those parts of the OT that talk about Solomon in a very long time.
There are so many. Which is the definitive one?
(yes. trick question)
Easy,the King James version of course!
facepalm
God’s words (allegedly), interpreted by man, edited by man, fiddled for political reasons by man…….to fit an agenda……..
No chance of it acurately being what God said, if he ever said anything.
Ah, someone who sees the forest despite the trees!
I think you have to do your own research. I settled on the Septuagint and the EOB NT. Because they give me enough notes on the Greek and Aramaic to understand what was originally written without having to learn these dead languages.
I hope their fucking stove ban works out better than their tobacco ban!
“calling the harmful emissions a “cumulative burden” on black, Latino and low-income households.”
Oh really! I know of one high rise luxury condominium project where the units with gas stoves sell at a premium. Low-income households, I don’t think so.
When ever a government agency or consumer think tank funded by tax payer grant comes up with almost anything you got to peal back the layers like an onion to uncover the lies and BULL SHIT and then the ultimate purpose or intent .
The purpose or intent is generally always a method to separate average people from more of their earnings as the pathetic parasites make bank fining and permitting the shit out of everything.
The minute they say it’s for the children you know they are FULL OF SHIT
Well, I am going to choose the side of SCIENCE!!
I am starting a new group; MAGA (Motherfuckers Against Gas Appliances).
Send me $19.95 and I’ll send you a t-shirt!
Banning gas stoves is a red herring. The government launches several red herrings every year. Why? To fuck with you. That is there business, to fuck with you. The government is stealing you blind while it simultaneously robs you of your natural rights recognized by the Constitution.
They are deathly afraid at some point in time, the light is going to come on, and you are going to realize who your real enemy is. To keep that from happening, they keep you inundated with bullshit and government created problems so you will not focus on them and what they are doing to you.
The business of government is to create problems, in order to present themselves as the solution to those false problems. They create crime, and then claim to need more money to fight crime. They created sickness and disease and then claim to need more money to fight sickness and disease. They create war, and then claim to need more of your money to fight the war. They create hate and division among the people so that you do unite and stand against them.
Government is evil by its nature, because any human given power over another will miss use that power by our very nature, and our psychopathic egos.
In our local county, they love to set up traffic delineators and block off one lane of a 4 lane road even though no one ever works on the road. They move the delineators from location to location, but never do any work. No one ever questions it. My wife was stuck in traffic because of these delineators, asked me what they are doing to the road? Nothing, I told her, they are not blocking traffic to work on the road, they are blocking traffic to fuck with you. That is their job.
What else is natural gas used for?
Making ammonia.
Ammonia is used to make fertilizer (90%). It’s also used in making explosives (gunpowder, etc.).
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/global-ammonia-market-to-2024—increasing-usage-for-the-production-of-explosives-300894091.html
If some group of lunatics wanted another global war, they’d need to deal with the increased and protracted need for explosives.
Wonder why there is a fertilizer shortage? The feedstock normally used for fertilizer is going somewhere else.
The first couple of days into this insanity the excuse was that gas ranges were particularly harmful to non-White folks … but there’s an enormous fact that such logic ignores …
We’ve come to know that a sizable portion of non-White folks live in public housing of one kind or another … and, having built several public housing projects for developers throughout the ’80s and into the ’00s, that makes no sense when you realize that those housing units do NOT use gas appliances because they cost noticeably more than electric ones do — and the developers of those projects are both notoriously cheap as well as notoriously crooked …
Come on, Kit. Look at WHERE natural gas is primarily used.
Air quality is just a ruse. They want everyone on the electric grid, which only they will control. Pure and simple.
It is about seeing just how far “they” can push stupid people. Real far these days, you are less than free. Now put your mask on and take your shots and s t f u.
I purchased a HEPA filter device and after the first filter replacement the carbon filter was covered with fibers and metallic substance – I believe this is what is in chem trails sprayed everyday over us. Who knows what is in the HEPA filter. I will send this to a laboratory to analyze and if my suspicion is fact I will send the results to our local congressman and senator and request a halt to the poison sprayed over the population. With Bill Gates involved in SRM you can bet disease and corona hoax will also infect our families!
When the earth quakes begin, there is a problem of gas pipelines to the stoves,
that may cause a lot of collateral damage.
They want to get rid of oil and gas pipelines in the US,
because when Yellowstone erupts, there will be many earthquakes.
Thee will be many volcanoes erupting in america and many earthquakes and disasters never seen before such as large rocks and also fire raining from the sky.
That is why they let all the infrastructure decay and become unsafe, bridges etc, for far too long and never passed the infrastructure bills.
Why fix what is past due to be destroyed anyway?
When NASA’s satellites images showed that Yellowstone volcano was actually a huge and growing super volcano,
that was the end of the USA as the world power.
They brought in all their shady money making schemes in, set them in place.
They replaced what was good with their big money makers: drugs porn, sex industries prisons, child trafficking, gambling.
They fueled it all by advertising in the form of movies and entertainment,
to make the crap they made legal and illegal seem glamorous and fun,
in order to suck out all the wealth from the people.
They destroyed Christianity and brought in atheism and satanism,
to make people degenerate enough to allow it all to happen.
Ruining america, replacing the gold in Fort Knox with gold painted bars,
and made materialism via low priced goods fund China to become the new world power.
The digital Yuan will become the new world currency.
New York and California, will go first.
America will be gutted completely before it falls.
China will want to use it after, Yellowstone levels it.
After Yellowstone, it will be fabulous farm land for China’a growing population.
The Bankers have it all figured out. The world bankers, are the real secret Rulers of Earth.
Democracy is just a distraction and a fraud, a false reality they convince you is real.
They own and run both sides of everything, while pretending they don’t, they convince you all you are in power with your “votes”.
It is over for america very soon. It will BURN, just as Dumitru Duduman said it would.
When the devil runs this world as the NWO, this world will no longer belong to God, and it will be cast out.
It will die and become one with eternal Hell.
Part of the kingdom of Lucifer and the fallen Angels of Hell=the Bankers and Illuminati.
This seems even more relevant now after the Ohio disaster…