 In an interview with Bloomberg a commissioner with the government agency called gas stoves a hidden hazard It comes as mounting research links gas stoves to health risks when it comes to breathing issues While the agency says they are looking for ways to reduce indoor air quality hazards related to gas stoves Which also emit the greenhouse gas methane they are not looking to ban gas stoves Welcome back viewer in recent months There's been a growing push to ban of all things gas stoves due to claims from alarmists about their supposed impact on the environment and public health We all saw it when AOC tweeted out fear-mongering about gas stoves Apparently forgetting that she has a gas stove which set off many on the right who called it yet another insane Overreach by the extreme left this led to over-the-top Mockery from the media and a now common response that it was all just a right-wing conspiracy theory Which is what they call anything. They don't want to talk about and want to go away Oh my god, oh my god, you have Rhonda Santis. I'm going to protect your guests I'm going to tell you about gas stoves gas it's so stupid whoever's pulling this issue and telling Republicans To obsess over it Kevin McGurk. They just need to stop No, as I said it makes Trump Republicans look even dumber. Oh my god The Republican Party has become addicted to This culture of lies and conspiracy theories that they have fomented, right? And this is the this is like the economy of in the culture of conspiracy theories, right? You and I will be able to drive through parts of the country Ten years from now and people will be saying do you remember back when Joe Biden was an office and they tried to take away our gas stoves So why are so many Americans and Republican lawmakers still enthralled with gas? It all started when the government officials said an interview that gas stoves could face more regulation on health grounds That provoked a cycle of outrage mostly from the right So to most people stoves are a pretty random household object to suddenly be making news So there's an opening to mock the left, which is something you see leveraged Constantly against shifting ideas about gender or systemic racism. This is riffing It doesn't really require evidence just repetition of existing tropes Which researchers say is really crucial to forming belief you might think that the US government is coming for your gas stove That is a new and absolutely ridiculous one turns out Fox News and Republicans are up in arms because they say the government is coming to Take your stoves. What Republicans are saying is Damn it. They're gonna take your gas stove. GOP have been stoking ridiculous new freak out about gas stoves No one is taking your gas stove. The right wing freak out over the use of gas stoves is merely the latest in a long series of made up Culture war battles designed to enrage and rile up their right-wing and paranoid base Public ends are prone to conspiracy theories whether it's you know, the kooky like JFK juniors coming back from the dead to run with Trump or the sort of duplicitous like This administration's coming to take away your gas stoves survey says Except it wasn't a conspiracy theory and as always it turns out that the media was just giving cover to Democrats to push Policies that they knew would create backlash to the party. Have you ever noticed how they always start out denying? There's anything there like CRT for example, which they insisted wasn't in schools But then as soon as Republicans started banning CRT in schools the very same people lost their minds and insisted that They wanted it in the schools first. They claimed banning gas stoves was a right-wing conspiracy theory and now this but There is no doubt the science is showing us that those choices are heating up the planet at sort of a scary rate This is part of a wave of electrification across the country New York the first state But there's about 90 different municipalities and counties the first was Berkeley, California a couple years ago But this is one step closer to a world without fossil fuel pollution. It's a big one given the size of New York Alright folks, I have yard work to do so we're gonna wrap it up there But if you enjoyed please hit that like button share subscribe and make sure to let us know what you think in the comments Thanks a lot, and I'll see you all in the next one