New York continues to lead the way on fighting climate change and death. And at least as far as climate change is concern, their efforts seem to be working. Because at the rate people are fleeing the state, pretty much there will only be a few people left in New York to contribute to global warming.
But what will really clean New York up is giving people who don’t already live there reasons to never move there in the first place. And it looks like that’s exactly what Governor Kathy Hochul and the state legislature are trying to do.
Guys, New York is coming for the gas stoves:
Breaking news: New York has become the first state in the nation to pass a law banning natural gas and other fossil fuels in most new buildings, a move that could inspire other states and further erode the residential future of the gas industry. https://t.co/IqAY1iSo4n
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 3, 2023
More from the Washington Post:
The law effectively requires all-electric heating and cooking in new buildings shorter than seven stories by 2026, and in 2029 for taller buildings. And although it allows exemptions for manufacturing facilities, restaurants, hospitals and even carwashes, the measure does not do what some climate activists had feared: give cities and counties license to override the ban.
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Opponents derided the New York bill’s passage as governmental overreach. Republican Robert Ortt, the minority leader of the New York Senate, issued a statement criticizing the law as a “first-in-the-nation, unconstitutional ban” that “will drive up utility bills and increase housing costs.”
The bill is governmental overreach. And it will both drive up utility bills and increase housing costs. So the opponents are correct.
NEW: Natural gas stoves and furnaces are now "BANNED in most new construction in New York state beginning in 2026" pic.twitter.com/JybVAhIJ6z
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 3, 2023
Ah.
Wasn’t it just a few years ago the federal government was pushing cars that run on natural gas? https://t.co/LARuFu6YUP
— Egon Alter (@AlterEgon75) May 3, 2023
You can still see buses driving around with prominently displayed signs about how they run on natural gas. So yes.
Did we mention that the Ban Gas Stoves Brigade is full of hypocrites?
New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul defends banning gas stoves: "This is how you transition!" pic.twitter.com/JHHkomMaNZ
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 3, 2023
Here’s what Gov. Kathy Hochul means: “This is how you transition. Not me. Because, unlike you plebs, I’m allowed to use gas stoves.”
Meanwhile, we were reliably assured that nobody was trying to ban gas stoves and that we were stupid for believing such a stupid and obviously false right-wing narrative.
https://t.co/vfhHeIbr6u pic.twitter.com/f5TFFKp5f5
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 3, 2023
But I thought they weren't coming after gas stoves
— John Patrick (@injunjohn86) May 3, 2023
No that’s just a crazy ultra-MAGA conspiracy theory, remember?
— 🫃🏼💉🇺🇦Hollaria Briden, Esq. (@HollyBriden) May 3, 2023
I was told this loss of freedom was a crackpot conspiracy theory used to fire up a culture war.
— JWF (@JammieWF) May 3, 2023
Welp.
It’s stuff like this that… forgive me… gaslights conservatives. The media made Republicans out to be crazy to suggest this kind of regulation is happening and it quite literally is. https://t.co/gQw3MAi2Ia
— Patrick Hedger (@PatHedger18) May 3, 2023
Another conspiracy theory comes true.
— Jill Susan (@JillSusan88) May 3, 2023
That seems to happen kind of a lot, doesn’t it?
Remember when Democrats lied and told us nobody was trying to ban natural gas? Including @KJP46 and several members of the White House? https://t.co/eHVXjkA2aI
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) May 3, 2023
I would like a personal apology from every liberal that argued the Left wasn't trying to ban gas stoves, and I was stupid for making it an issue. https://t.co/tC4QNzg8vK
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) May 3, 2023
Feel free to get the ball rolling on that, “Morning Joe.”
We’d also like a pre-emptive apology from all the people cheerleading the move to electric stoves as some kind of scientific and moral victory when they’re not acknowledging where the electricity fueling those stoves is going to be coming from.
In any event:
This is the dumbest move ever.
— Ultra Dark Nuclear Logic (@LogicFirst1) May 3, 2023
And getting the hell out of New York could be the smartest move ever.
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Related:
Washington Post says there’s pressure growing to ban gas stoves, which we were told was a hoax
Sen. Eric Schmitt’s gas stove ‘how it started/how it’s going’ burns the NY Times
Here’s a parade of gas stove ‘fact-checks’ from the media that have aged wonderfully
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