Gas Stove Protection and Freedom Act
Floor Speech
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Mrs. BOEBERT. Mr. Chairman, I rise in favor of my amendment which will prohibit the administration from unilaterally implementing extremely costly regulations that would result in the unavailability in the United States of a type or class of product based on the type of fuel the product consumes.
My amendment ensures that the Consumer Product Safety Commission focuses on actual hazards with design rather than targeting fuel sources.
We have a crisis at our southern border. Americans are worried about being able to provide for their families and not pay $10 for a bag of grapes. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is focused on controlling the kind of stove Americans use in their homes.
Mr. Chair, 100 percent of the currently available freestanding gas stoves and 96 percent of gas cooktops will not meet the new standards proposed by the Biden administration's Department of Energy.
The Department of Energy estimates savings would average $1.50 per year.
Mr. Chairman, do you know how much a gas stove that is compliant under this proposed rule would cost on average?
Installation costs are anywhere between $3,600 on the high end to $2,000 on the low end. Adding that to the cost of the stove puts you out another $3,000 to $4,000, at least. Saying it will save consumers money is a flat-out lie. Forcing people to switch to expensive alternatives will only further increase costs for hardworking families in my district and across America.
This reminds me a lot of when Mayor Pete said that if you can't afford the price of gas due to the administration's anti-American energy policies, then Americans should just shell out $40,000 to $55,000 for a new electric vehicle.
This administration has proven to be completely out of touch.
Never mind the fact that Biden has also targeted dishwashers, refrigerators, water heaters, furnaces, and air conditioners. On top of families paying more for everyday costs due to Bidenflation, it is clear this administration has prioritized pandering to Green New Deal extremists rather than saving American families' hard-earned money.
I do thank my colleague, Representative Kelly Armstrong, for his leadership to ensure the CPSC cannot abuse Federal funds to regulate gas stoves.
Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this amendment as well as the underlying bill.
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Mrs. BOEBERT. I yield to the gentleman from Florida.
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Mrs. BOEBERT. Mr. Chairman, may I ask how much time I have remaining.
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Mrs. BOEBERT. Mr. Chairman, what makes no sense is the speech that we just heard regarding this amendment. There is so much of that that I cannot even fathom to put together.
I am hearing a lot about hazards from gas stoves that would cause harm for our children. I have four children. We have always had a gas stove, and they are doing pretty well.
I can see that the gentlewoman from Illinois has made it pretty long in her lifetime with the so-called dangers of gas products here in America.
Mr. Chairman, let me tell you what really is hazardous. What really is dangerous is the Green New Deal extremism that comes from the left because they want to suppress our good, clean energy right here in the United States of America that is cheap, that is reliable, and it is actually something that is affordable for Americans right now, unlike everything else because of the inflation that we are seeing from this administration.
What is hazardous and what is really dangerous are the tens of thousands of children who are mining for cobalt in Chinese-owned mines in the Congo with their bare hands. That is what is dangerous, and that is what this Green New Deal extremist policy encourages and pushes.
I have voted on so many bills for the Uighurs that are suppressed by the Chinese, but we never talk about the slave labor that takes place to produce the energy that the other side is trying to force on Americans with their overreach of government policy. That is what is dangerous.
An open border with fentanyl pouring over, that is dangerous. Families not being able to afford to feed their family, that is dangerous.
Mr. Chair, I urge the adoption of this bill that makes so much more sense than the speech that we just heard from the other side of the aisle.
Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
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