Electric stoves are 2.6x more likely to cause fires compared to gas stoves
Households with electric stoves have a 3.4x higher death rate and 5x higher injury rate compared to gas
Guess which type Biden wants to ban? pic.twitter.com/aRviCGoRw5
— John Hasson (@SonofHas) January 10, 2023
Do not misunderstand me: I do not wish to ban or limit the sale of electric ranges. Nor do I think the federal government has the power to do so. I merely wish to point out that, if the hyperactive progressives who are currently going after gas stoves wished instead to make the case against electric ranges, they could instead use these stats as their pretext, and they could do so with exactly the same level of stridency as they are currently exhibiting.
And they would. In such a case, Richard Trumka Jr. would be insisting that “products that can’t be made safe can be banned,” and then reciting the statistics above as his justification. In such a case, AOC would be asking people on Twitter, “did you know that the civilian fire injury rate per million households was 4.8 times higher with electric ranges than in households using gas ranges?” In such a case, the mawkish subtext of the whole thing would be, “do you think your electric range is more important than your child not burning to death?” Chris Hayes would jump on it. Elizabeth Warren would jump on it. Everyone you currently expect to jump on it would jump on it. All that would change is the details.
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