Geri Rigging
Like many contemporary homes, most appliances in ours are wired for an electrical connection or plumbed for natural gas operation. Choice, much like variety, is the spice of life. As I wrote earlier this year in an article entitled, “Now You’re Cooking with Gas – Or Are You?” the federal administration wants to prohibit gas stoves in all homes. Many progressively-operated regions in the United States have already surrendered to the idea by disallowing natural gas (LNG) lines going to new residential developments.
In an interesting question period during a recent hearing with the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs, Geraldine Richmond, the Department of Energy Under Secretary for Science and Innovation was queried if she knew “what it takes to put an electric stove in your home”. She responded in the negative citing, “I have no idea”.
The questioner, Republican Representative from Pennsylvania, Scott Perry then said, “You got to run a 220 line. Which means you’re going to probably have to get an electrician because unless you know how to do that yourself, you’re playing with potentially losing your life and electrocuting yourself. You’re going to have to hire someone to come in and drill holes in your floor and pull wire to the panel and hook that whole thing up.” Representative Perry was endeavoring to enlighten Under Secretary Richmond on the cost to the individual homeowner to comply with the proposed new ban.
What this plainly alludes to is the lack of knowledge and illiteracy of those constructing regulations around climate change. In this day of woke and all manner of progressively-righteous social justice taking precedence over meritocracy, this is a common occurrence. Geraldine (Geri) Richmond is an American chemist and physical chemist, and while that does not reflect a profundity or knowledge in climate change, she is a woman who is an advocate and mentor for women in science. While stating that would put me under the noose of woke or feminist organizations, that is what has become of the social order under the hiring practices of progressive governance. Tribalism, race, gender, orientation, and other woke characteristics or attributes take precedence over abilities, expertise, and qualifications.
Citing climate change and noise, virtue-seeking city councilors in Toronto Ontario have brought forward legislation to ban two-stroke engine appliances such as lawnmowers, leaf blowers, chainsaws, pressure washers, rototillers, augers, saws, drills, and generators. The legislation has been initiated and endorsed by city councilors Shelley Carroll and Dianne Saxe, who perhaps do not ever use such practicality of such devices and who must not understand how underpowered the battery-operated alternatives can be. As well the battery-operated units have a much reduced time of usefulness, typically cost much more and recharging times are inconvenient.
Everything about the illusion and delusion created by the deception of climate change is inordinately costly and naturally, costs are so much more arduous on the poor. Many of the progressive remedies, if eventually done, will assuredly sink entire countries. Yet advocate governments hire people that are not climate experts, but rather those that tow their ideological line of authority and control.
