New York Congresswoman and environmentalist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took heat on Twitter after she mocked Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Tex., for tweeting that he would never give up his gas stove on Monday.
The exchange went viral, with Ocasio-Cortez’s post racking up more than 73,000 likes on Twitter.
“Did you know that ongoing exposure to NO2 from gas stoves is linked to reduced cognitive performance?” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in response to a tweet from Jackson.
Jackson vowed that he would rather die than give up his gas stove. “I’ll NEVER give up my gas stove. If the maniacs in the White House come for my stove, they can pry it from my cold dead hands. COME AND TAKE IT!!”
The commissioner for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission told Bloomberg News that the agency is considering a ban on gas stoves, reportedly out of concern for the environment and people’s personal health.
Actors, politicians, and conservative activists made fun of Ocasio-Cortez for the exchange, asking the Congresswoman how many gas stoves she owned and joking that her proposal was a direct attack on chefs like Gordon Ramsay.
But Ocasio-Cortez argued that the “proposal” to ban gas stoves was a perfectly reasonable one.
“The way we are handling it in NYC isn’t to force people to switch what they already have. Folks can keep their appliances, and new buildings in NYC will have gas-free stoves. As for federally, any proposal from the CPSC would go through a quite lengthy review and input process.”
“Dems are literally insane,” actor Nicholas Tutora wrote.
He also joked that the gas stove was one of many inventions that the Biden administration will ban: “Dems will be banning the wheel next.”
“Is this an attack on @GordonRamsey,” Republican Congressional candidate Max Avery tweeted.
“How many [gas stoves] do you have?” actor Matthew Marsden asked.
Multiple users posted pictures of First Lady Jill Biden cooking spinach with a gas stove indoors.
Freedom Speaks Up CEO Seth Weathers tweeted that Ocasio-Cortez might do well to check her own cognitive ability after using gas stoves. “Is that what happened to you?”
Virginia state delegate Nick Freitas argued that cooking at home was an essential requirement for freedom.
“Did you know that it’s a lot harder for the government to arbitrarily cut off your access to power if [you’re] using gas as opposed to electric? Or is that really the point?”
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AOC is signs of brain Damage she must have been dropped on her head a lot shows signs of non use of the brain joined the Democrat Party
The first home i lived in we had Gas Cooktop and none of us suffered Brain Damage the real Brain Damage comes from way too
much of this New Age Eco-Freak stuff which started with Carson and Silent Spring then Ehrlich and The Population Bomb and has ended up with Gore and this Global Warming/Climate Change load of malarkey.
I wonder if this is where AOC got that idea.
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Maybe this is where AOC got that idea.
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So, what is the Consumer Product Safety Commission basing this finding? Is the supposed “study” they are relying on creditable & peer reviewed? There are several “bogus” natural gas studies out there, so I am dubious about the underpinnings of their findings. Proper ventalation is the KEY with most kitchen arrangements, in any regard. I wonder if AOC is aware that between 2-3 MILLION people DIE every year due to respiratory ailments due indoor particulates from burning wood or dung? Those folks would give a LUNG to have a reliable natural gas stove. Face it. This IS NOT about safety & environmental protection. This is about the government dictating EVERY ASPECT of your existence. If folks desire to (ultimately) live in a police State, then just keep rolling with the “flow.” ENCOURAGING to see the blow back…
Randy, at this point peer review is crap review given the nonsense coming out of the “climate change” racket and almost every other scientific field that tries to tie their papers to man-made climate change. Even Paul Erhlich claimed his Population Bomb book had been peer reviewed.
My understanding, after further review, is the “studies’ used by the CPSC as the basis for the proposed ban have largely been discredited. No surprise. Just another example in a LONG LINE of junk science fitted to discredit all things fossil fuels…
Using a natural gas stove is more efficient than burning natural gas to generate electricity for a hotplate.
Does AO-C know that? She must realize that the grid is supplied by coal-fired generators. Adding electrical load will create hardship for customers. The “greener” grid is not ready for millions more EV’s and cook tops. Higher prices and more frequent outages will be on her and her ilk.