www.zerohedge.com BY TYLER DURDEN
Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
After seeking to reduce the use of gas stoves, the Biden administration is pushing a proposal to ban the sale of almost all portable gas generators—which some experts have said would be disastrous for the millions of Americans who rely on such generators during power outages.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has proposed a policy (pdf) that would remove nearly all existing portable gas generators from the market. The new rule restricts the amount of carbon monoxide that generators can emit by forcing these generators to switch off when they reach a certain level of emissions.
Smaller gas generators would have to cut carbon monoxide emissions by 50 percent, and larger generators would have to cut emissions by up to 95 percent. Nearly all models currently available are expected to not be in compliance with the new standard.
Once the proposed rules come into effect, manufacturers would have to comply with them in just six months, a process that usually takes several years. The rules would also ban manufacturers from stockpiling noncompliant generators before the new standards are enacted…
Oh Hell, let’s just ban the use of a gas or propane powered generator altogether. Then when we have the next disaster and power outage, everyone can just sit and wait until power is restored or just die. A win/win. Population decline and lower pollution. I do in reality realize that they do pollute at a much greater rate than the typical gas powered vehicle of today but then they are primarly only used when we have an electrical malfunction. Who are these people/experts that come up with this “shit”!