PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • June 26, 2023
Of all the urgent problems House Republicans could be tackling – gun violence, voting rights, climate change – they are using some of their power to fan the flames of a cultural war over gas stoves. The Republican-controlled House recently passed legislation that purports to respond to a nonexistent problem: The unfounded fear that the feds are trying to seize people’s gas stoves (which they’re not) or ban them (they’re not doing that, either). This move is part of a broader Republican-led push to restrict government’s power to protect people from pollution while propping up the fossil fuel industry. As Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) put it earlier this year, “God. Guns. Gas stoves.” Those priorities are wildly misplaced and should be laughed out of the chamber. ~ Los Angeles Times editorial