If you needed more proof that climate zealotry has jumped the shark, look no further than Sydney, Australia — where the city council, led by 80-year-old Lord Mayor Clover Moore, has now moved to ban outdoor gas barbecues in an effort to achieve “net zero” emissions. That’s right. In the land of sun, surf, and backyard cookouts, the gas grill has become public enemy number one.
On Monday, the City of Sydney formally endorsed a policy banning new gas connections to homes and businesses starting in 2027 — a move that will, yes, extend to outdoor gas barbecues that are connected to residential gas lines. Only portable gas bottle grills will survive the purge — for now.
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The stated reason? Gas is, in Moore’s words, “bad for the planet, bad for our finances, and bad for our health.” But for many residents, this move feels less like a climate measure and more like an ideological overreach — the kind of top-down micromanagement of daily life that has become a hallmark of climate absolutism.
And let’s be clear: this isn’t just about emissions. It’s about control. From what you cook on, to how you drink at a pub, to how much fossil fuel your stovetop uses, the goalposts of personal freedom keep moving in cities run by “progressive” leadership.
Sydneysiders are already being told they can’t stand and drink outside a pub unless they’re at a cocktail table — a bizarre, bureaucratic decree that radio host Ben Fordham rightly mocked as part of “Clover’s world order.” And now the ban on gas grilling adds insult to injury.
You’re not going to like the sound of this…
A major council is BANNING gas BBQ’s.
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Critics of Moore’s plan have good reason to be skeptical. Gas cooking is efficient, reliable, and for many households, cheaper than fully electric alternatives. The mayor’s claim that the changes will save residents money mirrors arguments made by New York City officials when they passed similar restrictions in 2023 — arguments that have yet to be meaningfully proven.
And all of this is being done in the name of a net zero target set for 2035 — a goal that remains entirely symbolic unless the rest of the nation, and much of the world, follows suit. Spoiler alert: they won’t.
From a ban on gas barbecues to restrictions on buskers, the City of Sydney is copping backlash over controversial new rules. @PaulKadak pic.twitter.com/0HEkwIIP9z
— 7NEWS Sydney (@7NewsSydney) October 30, 2025
Ironically, Moore’s announcement comes just as Bill Gates — long considered one of the climate alarmism movement’s more credible voices — publicly admitted that climate change, while serious, is not the greatest threat facing humanity and doesn’t warrant the doomsday rhetoric that has defined so much of the policy response.
Yet Moore presses on, determined to tackle climate change one grill ban at a time, as if extinguishing the flames under a few thousand backyard sausages will somehow forestall global catastrophe.
From a ban on gas barbecues to restrictions on buskers, the City of Sydney is copping backlash over controversial new rules. @PaulKadak pic.twitter.com/0HEkwIIP9z
— 7NEWS Sydney (@7NewsSydney) October 30, 2025
This isn’t environmental stewardship. It’s a progressive crusade, dressed in green rhetoric but driven by an ever-growing appetite for centralized control over private life. And for many in Sydney, the smell of overreach is now more pungent than that of any gas-fired barbecue.
