(Parsippany, NJ ) The Biden Administration and its climate extremist backers are determined to reach the hand of government into American kitchens and snatch away our gas stoves and no amount of state legislation will stop them, says New Jersey Republican Assembly candidate BettyLou DeCroce.

DeCroce, who served 9 years in the state Assembly representing Legislative District 26, said the climate extremists wing of the Democratic Party is determined to regulate gas stoves out of existence, forcing homeowners and renters to buy new electric stoves which will be much more costly to purchase and operate.
“The over-reach of the Democrats into every corner of our lives is real, and it is disturbing, “ said DeCroce, a Parsippany resident who is seeking to return to the Assembly this year as representative of the new Legislative District 26.

DeCroce said legislation proposed by senate Republicans on the state level will not overcome federal regulation by the extremists in the Biden Administration.

“Did anyone notice that not a single New Jersey Democratic legislator offered a word in rebuttal to the revelation that a Biden appointee to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said gas stoves would soon be outlawed?” asked DeCroce.

“They are afraid of the extremists who have taken over their party and will never vote for a bill to protect our rights to use clean and efficient gas stoves in our kitchens,” she added.

“While I appreciate the sentiment of the senators who sponsored state legislation to protect kitchen appliances from the reach of Biden’s extremist bureaucracy, they must know that their legislation is going nowhere,” added DeCroce.

“Our Gov. Phil Murphy is a captive of the climate extremists in his party; his radical state energy master plan would ban natural gas use as well as impose other energy hardships on state residents,” said DeCroce.

The extremists’ plan to reach the arm of government into American kitchens was first revealed by a liberal Biden appointee to the CPSC several weeks ago. The uproar it caused among citizens forced the CPSC to walk back its plan.

“That was not the end of the story,” noted DeCroce. The Wall Street Journal reported on February 3rd that the Federal Energy Department has proposed new efficiency standards that would ban the sale of most gas stoves currently on the market. That federal regulation, added DeCroce will trump any state legislation.

The WSJ editorial: Banning Gas Stoves by Regulation went on to say that: “Twenty of the 21 gas stove-top models that the Energy Department tested wouldn’t comply with its proposed standards.

Manufacturers would have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars redesigning stoves, if they bother…..Those costs would be passed to consumers in higher prices.”

“We are facing climate totalitarianism and it is up to Republicans to fight for control of our lives before the government takes our control away,” said DeCroce. “The time for meaningless speeches and dead-end legislation is over.”

DeCroce said she is writing to Rep. Mikie Sherrill (CD-11) asking that she oppose the CPSC and the federal Energy Department’s regulations banning gas stoves.

“It’s time to find out if Rep. Sherrill is working for us or the far-left climate extremists who are using scare tactics to alter our lives to suit their view of the world,” said DeCroce.

The new District 26 includes the following municipalities: Morris County: Boonton Denville, East Hanover, Hanover, Florham Park, Lincoln Park, Mountain Lakes, Montville, Morris Plains, Parsippany, Pequannock and Riverdale. In Passaic County: Bloomingdale, Pompton Lakes, Ringwood, & Wanaque.