Familiarity breeds contempt, and there was something both familiar and contemptible about the brouhaha last week over a possible federal ban on gas stoves. The firestorm was ignited by Richard Trumka Jr., a member of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who told Bloomberg that his agency was considering all options to address increasing concerns about the emissions produced by the devices, including an outright ban. No sooner was the trial balloon aloft than critics stampeded to blast it from the sky. NATURAL GAS IS ABOUT TO BECOME THE WORLD'S BIGGEST GREEN ENERGY SOURCE You can pry my gas stove “from my cold dead hands,” erupted Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX). Republicans on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce scorched the proposal. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) proclaimed that “the last thing that would ever leave my house...