Energy Secretary attempts to justify regulating gas appliances, despite owning a gas stove

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm admitted to owning a gas stove shortly after the Energy Department released a memo in which it admitted to seeking to regulate gas appliances.

"This does not impact the majority, and it certainly does not say that anybody who has a gas stove would have their gas stove taken away," Granholm told members of the House Appropriations Committee. "There's no ban on gas stoves. I have a gas stove. It is just about making the existing electric and gas stoves, and all the other appliances, more efficient." 

A recent Energy Department study showed that 96% of gas stoves failed to meet the updated efficiency standards that the department proposed.

In January, the Biden administration was forced to backpedal after an official hinted at a possible nationwide ban on gas stoves, claiming the appliances are linked to climate change, pollution and health problems such as cancer.

The Energy Department claimed that their new standards for consumer cooking appliances would save a "significant amount" of energy. 

President of the U.S. Oil and Gas Association Tim Stewart told the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show, that "it's not about savings, not about health, it's about control."  

"Their rule would ban 84% of the gas stoves that they're testing as not being efficient enough," he stated. "And so the crappy gas stoves that you and I had in our college dorm rooms might make the cut. But the high end Viking and subzero ranges, they're not going to make the cut under this DOE proposal."