House Republicans are relighting the flames of their gas stoves culture war.

GOP lawmakers will use a subcommittee hearing and committee vote Wednesday to step up their attacks on the Biden administration’s efforts to regulate the kitchen appliances, portraying proposed efficiency standards from the Energy Department as federal overreach.

President Joe Biden, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission have all disavowed any desire to outlaw gas-fired cooktops, although multiple Democratic-led cities and states have sought to do just that for new buildings.

“Nobody’s taking my gas stove. Nobody will take your gas stove,” Granholm testified this month.

[Except that they *are*, and Republicans want to put a stop to the Energy Department’s attempt to backstop those efforts with bogus science and unnecessary regulation. It seems very strange that a supposed journalistic enterprise thinks that congressional oversight and checks on federal agencies and their regulatory proposals are somehow strange and unusual. — Ed]