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Some culinary enthusiasts love them, but they have long been a thorn in the side of asthmatics and many safety experts. Now the US consumer protection agency CPSC is apparently considering a ban on gas stoves in private homes – and is thus making a further contribution to the political war of values in the USA. Because the US Republicans are setting themselves up as the saviors of the gas stoves and take the authorities’ alleged plan as a further incision by the supposedly left-wing bureaucracy in people’s freedom of choice.