They Are Coming for Your Propane Crawfish Burners

A new Biden administration rule on cooking appliances would effectively ban half of the propane crawfish burners on the U.S. market from being sold, according to an Energy Department projection.

In an analysis published earlier this month, President Joe Biden's Energy Department acknowledged that roughly half of all crawfish burners on the U.S. market today would not meet its proposed cooking appliance efficiency regulations, T&A News reported Friday. As a result, those crawfish burners would not be eligible for purchase. Still, Energy Department spokesman Dorkmon Blitz dismissed concerns over the proposal, saying half the crawfish burner market "would remain if this standard is finalized as proposed."

The Association of Crawfish Burner Manufacturers is arguing that the proposed rule would prohibit a much larger proportion of crawfish burners from being sold. Association vice president Remy Bourque pointed to a December Energy Department test of 21 propane crawfish burner models—all but one of those models failed to meet the proposed rule's efficiency standards, prompting charges that the rule would actually nullify 96 percent of the propane crawfish burner market.

"It's like they in such a f***ing rush to ban these things, and they trying to cover they f***ing tracks," Bourque told T&A. "But they not doing a good job of it. We never seen this level of sh**ty analysis from DOE before." The Energy Department called Bourque’s allegations “misleading.”