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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cancer is caused by gas stoves.  Also they give kids asthma:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a42448300/gas-stove-ban-biden-health-safety-risks/

That’s the real reason they must be banned.[/quote]

This is a load of bunk. The last time someone brought this up, I read the studies. Saying they’re “thin” would be a compliment. The “childhood asthma” study admits up from that they didn’t control for any other factors, and if you look at the results, the correlation was much stronger for economic & regional factors. Combined with previous studies showing a direct correlation with roach infestations and childhood asthma, all that study did was, once again, provide evidence that lower income children have a higher incidence of asthma.

The study that measured particulates did so in a specially sealed room with zero ventilation. No one cooks in a room like that. The people measuring the air quality while they are cooking also turn off their ventilation hoods to do so. And not one of these “studies” compares the particulate emissions of cooking on an electric stove (much of which is from cooking food, not the burning of the gas). When I’m cooking at my gas stove with the vent hood going full blast, I can’t even smell what I’m cooking. There’s no way it’s filling my home with particulates, and definitely no more so than if I were cooking at an electric stove.

Finally, burning gas directly for heat is a more efficient use of the energy source than converting the gas to electricity (with efficiency losses), shipping it over tens to hundreds of miles (with attendant line losses) and converting it to heat on a range.

If you want to eliminate the use of fossil fuels for other reasons, say so, but coming up with bogus “health effects” only discredits your cause. [/quote]

Absolutely!

And, increasing the electrical load will only cause us to phase out coal fired plants more slowly.

I think this whole campaign is being driven by electric utilities.

It has all the earmarks of an astro turf.[/quote]

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