Gas stoves vs. Electric, an alarming anecdote
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is looking into banning gas stoves, and an uproar ensued. Now the president is saying that he is not for banning them and people in general are backtracking, but don't be fooled.
No one is coming for the gas stove you currently have. But the administrative state absolutely will (and the article above says as much) go forward making regulations for the production of new ones and the fitting of hookups in new builds (forbidding them). So your freedom to have a gas stove will certainly be restricted in the future.
Here is my little story about the dangers of an electric stove, and how the CPSC thinks that is all a big yawn.
Far from worrying about the imagined harms of a gas stove, I wish I had one. I don't because I live where there is no municipal gas and I don't have propane. If I am able to renovate my kitchen, I will certainly get a propane tank and a nice, big stove with great big blue flames!
As of nine years ago I had a pretty nice electric convection range. The oven worked very well and my bakes and roasts were always on point. The stovetop was, of course, sadly lacking, as all electric ones are. My water boiled aggravatingly slowly and my pans were hard to regulate. But I lived with it -- because I had to.
Until one day I happened to be in the kitchen (thank goodness) when the stove turned itself on. I noticed it heating up when it was turning red, actually, in the oven, so hot was it getting.
There was no way to turn it off. None of the buttons or dials had any effect, and the outlet for the oven was behind it and unreachable, since the oven was getting very hot. My husband had to run down to the basement and throw the circuit breaker.
We thought that there was perhaps some fluke and shakily plugged the range in again. Again it turned itself on and wouldn't cancel. Of course we disconnected it entirely.
I contacted the manufacturer and they said that the malfunction would have to be repaired at our own expense. I bought a new range, of course. I wasn't about to pay to have this one fixed and then spend my time worrying about it burning a hole through my kitchen!
I contacted the Consumer Products Safety Commission, which you would think would be interested in an event that certainly could have burned our house down, had I not been present in the kitchen, and perhaps killed us all in our beds.
The outcome of that interaction was... a duly noted reception of my file.
So it seems that the CPSC is interested in safety if it means exercising random, capricous power, and not if it means actually doing something about a dangerous ELECTRIC stove!