a push for all electric homes

[Hedgelj]

The campaign to ban gas stoves is heating up

Gas cooktops release greenhouse emissions and produce harmful airborne chemicals, but not everyone is ready to say goodbye to their preferred cooking method.

news.yahoo.com

Gas cooktops release greenhouse emissions and produce harmful airborne chemicals, but not everyone is ready to say goodbye to their preferred cooking method.

 

[Jamie]

smdh. that is really fucking retarded drivel. Riddle me this: is it somehow better to burn coal and/or natural gas to generate all that electricity needed to power your cooktop? It is truly difficult to comprehend the level of naivety and incompetence required to buy into this stuff.

 

[Jackalope]

I just removed my electric and put in propane. Just doing my part.

 

[Cogz]

I just removed my electric and put in propane. Just doing my part.

I howled laughing at this

 

[Big_Holla]

Our house has electric hot water heater, electric stove, etc and all year long we get notices from the electric company basically ridiculing us in comparison to other neighbors. We get tips and recommendations on how to cut our useage. Meanwhile our gas bill (heat only) is a fraction of our neighbors. Idiots.

 

[Outside]

What 'harmful chemicals' does burning natural gas release?

 

[Jamie]

What 'harmful chemicals' does burning natural gas release?

according to the article, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide. this is, of course, laughable as well because the amount of these things released into the air in your house is very, very small, unless you live in an airtight cardboard dishwasher box. so far, cooking on a gas stove, while baking stuff in the gas oven and burning copious amounts of hardwood in a woodburning stove has never set off my carbon monoxide detector. or my formaldehyde detector.

 

[Jackalope]

Our house has electric hot water heater, electric stove, etc and all year long we get notices from the electric company basically ridiculing us in comparison to other neighbors. We get tips and recommendations on how to cut our useage. Meanwhile our gas bill (heat only) is a fraction of our neighbors. Idiots.

That's funny. Years ago my first house in Ohio was all electric but had gas ran to the meter. I put in a gas furnace and a wood burning stove. For years I would get bold red statements in the memo section of my bill about how stealing power is a crime. They even came out and did a visual inspection and replaced the meter. Despite the 4-5 cords of wood stacked out back the dingalings couldn't figure out why my bill went from $350 a month in the winter to $90.