The Energy Department placed new limitations on gas stoves. I'm Elizabeth Mitchell

and this is the Daily Signal top news for Wednesday August 14th. The Department of Energy finalized its new Gas Stove rule. The Daily Signals

Jarrett Stetman has been following this story. Jarrett, could you tell us about

the new rule? Yeah, thank you very much. So basically this rule, which is going to go into effect in January

2028 is going to create new so-called efficiency standards for for gas stoves and for stoves in general.

This is actually something that the Biden administration, which they insisted initially that

they were not actually going after gas stoves. Well, it very much turns out that they were not actually going after gas stoves, well it very much turns out that they are.

Now it won't necessarily immediately ban all gas stoves, but it's going to create higher energy

efficiency standards, which will of course increase the costs of

stoves and other appliances so there was some measure of delay in these rules

but after a short while they decide to announce it anyway.

And opponents of the rule include several Republican attorneys general, the Competitive Enterprise

Institute, and the Antonin Scalia Law School Administrative Law Clinic.

They say the Gastove rule is an example of federal overreach that increases costs for customers.

Are they correct?

I think they're absolutely correct and there's no question that these rules will force essentially people to buy

the stoves with the higher energy efficiency standards now the Biden administration has said

essentially that well you'll save money in the long term

because they have better efficiency but especially when you consider the fact the

energy costs across the country have been going up.

I think that's a little dubious, especially when you consider the front-end price of a lot of these new appliances,

which will require many states, many will require the industry essentially, to change the things that they sell.

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