On the recordJune 6, 2023
The other side of the aisle has said that nobody's gas stove is going to be banned. Let me read you a statement from Jeremy Ortiz, a spokesperson for the Department of Energy: Our ``analysis is constructed so that the proposed standard would ensure that products with at least one HIR burner and continuous grates can continue to be available on the market.'' Here is the punch line: ``We did go out of our way to make sure that these two features would remain on the market in creating our analysis. Over half the market would remain if this standard is finalized as proposed.'' Wow. They went out of their way. They bent over backward to make sure they were only going to ban half of the gas stoves on the market for now. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time. {time} 1300
