Globalists pose with gas stoves after banning them for taxpayers

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer caused outrage Friday when she posted a video of herself baking in her kitchen which featured a state-of-the-art gas stove.

Last month Whitmer signed a bill mandating a transition to 100% “sustainable” energy by 2040, which would effectively outlaw household appliances like gas stoves.

“Not only a gas stove, but a 20K dollar commercial gas stove.  It's good to be the queen no?” commented a user on Whitmer’s video.

“Yeah, that person in front of the $10k+ gas stove, signed a bill removing your gas stove… think she is going to step up and remove hers first?  Or at all?  This is an evil person,” wrote another netizen.

Whitmer’s video came weeks after Kamala Harris posted a Thanksgiving greeting which included a photo of her posing with her husband Douglas Emhoff next to their gas stove.

Harris helped push the Biden administration’s crusade against natural gas earlier this year. In January US Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. proposed a ban on gas stoves, claiming they cause indoor pollution linked to child asthma. The study cited by Trumka Jr. and mainstream media showed no such correlation.

In May, New York became the first state to ban natural gas stoves and furnaces in most new buildings. The regulations prohibit appliances which use fossil fuels — such as propane heating — from all new residential buildings, which will need to use all-electric appliances starting in 2025. Hospitals, laundromats and restaurants will be exempt.

Palo Alto, an affluent California city which serves as the economic hub for Silicon Valley and home to Stanford University, also outlawed natural gas lines in new buildings beginning this year to “fight climate change.” New buildings must be completely electrified and use strictly electric appliances.

But not everyone must comply with the new law.

The City of Palo Alto in May agreed to allow the exception for José Andrés, an award-winning chef and world-famous restaurateur. 

Aside from winning the James Beard award, Andrés was presented with the National Humanities Medal in 2016 by President Barack Obama, who lauded Andrés as "the quintessential American success story." Andrés also appeared as a guest star on Michelle Obama’s food show for children on Netflix. In 2015 the chef famously nixed plans to open a restaurant in a Washington, DC hotel owned by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.

In addition to his culinary career, Andrés is also an avowed climate messianist. In 2021, he launched a $1 billion fund to “fight climate disasters.” Last year he joined the Climate Migration Council alongside prominent political figures. 

“Climate change is real! Food sources will drastically disappear! We are taking food for granted,a big famine is coming! Unless we take Food seriously and we make drastic changes in the way humanity moves forward,mass migrations about to increase,Food is a National Security Issue,” Andrés tweeted last year.

But the chef took a different tack when the “fight for climate change” threatened to impact his new Mediterranean cuisine restaurant, Zaytinya.

Andrés’ lawyers contested the natural gas ban, claiming that the new restaurant relies on “traditional cooking methods that require gas appliances to achieve its signature, complex flavors.” If it were forced to adhere to the gas ban like the city’s other residents, his lawyers said, the restaurant would be forced to “alter its signature five-star menu.”

The city agreed to exempt Andrés’ from the climate mandate, though other buildings in the same development must comply with the gas ban.

“Except for this one-off situation, Palo Alto’s all-electric requirement is being implemented for all new projects and substantial remodels. Building electrification is critical to reducing our greenhouse gas emissions. Electric appliances and building systems provide clean and healthy environments in homes and businesses and in many respects, the new technologies perform better than the gas-emitting appliances they are replacing,” said the city in a statement.