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The gas industry is paying Instagram influencers to gush over gas stoves (2020)

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Post by rospaya »

mikrl wrote: post #7

It’s politicized too which is ridiculous. I’ve seen takes that being pro gas cookery is right-wing. Yes, it’s obvious that gas heat and cooking could cause respiratory issues due to combustion. As a gourmand though, cooking on a gas range is the best experience wrt temp control and convenience. I prefer an electric oven, and the heating system I’m impartial to, though radiant hot water is what I fondly remember from…

> It’s politicized too which is ridiculous. I’ve seen takes that being pro gas cookery is right-wing.

By now the playbook looks too easy for any lobbyist or interest group - just present any issue as left-right and the useful idiots do your work for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot

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Post by shapefrog »

CalRobert wrote: post #10
throwaway22032 wrote: post #6

I open the window and turn on the extractor fan when I use my gas hob. It uses a fraction of the fuel that my car does. Easily less than 10%. Frying on an electric hob is hardly good for your lungs either. This is just rage porn.

But you don't operate your vehicle indoors I assume.

I open the window (car) when I roll coal in my living room.

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Post by rs999gti »

mikrl wrote: post #7

It’s politicized too which is ridiculous. I’ve seen takes that being pro gas cookery is right-wing. Yes, it’s obvious that gas heat and cooking could cause respiratory issues due to combustion. As a gourmand though, cooking on a gas range is the best experience wrt temp control and convenience. I prefer an electric oven, and the heating system I’m impartial to, though radiant hot water is what I fondly remember from…

Are any right wing EU, US, or CA parties supporting the gas stove ban or is just lefties and greenies doing it?

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Post by zip1234 »

throwaway22032 wrote: post #6

I open the window and turn on the extractor fan when I use my gas hob. It uses a fraction of the fuel that my car does. Easily less than 10%. Frying on an electric hob is hardly good for your lungs either. This is just rage porn.

What does the amount of fuel compared to a car matter at all in regards to indoor air quality?

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Post by ceejayoz »

glanzwulf wrote: post #4

Today I found out I'm a paid influencer. Shame nobody told that to my bank account or my instagram followers. To me gas stoves are the best, and now that I don't have one I miss it even more.

"I'm not paid therefore no one is paid" is an odd argument.

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Post by throwaway22032 »

zip1234 wrote: post #15
throwaway22032 wrote: post #6

I open the window and turn on the extractor fan when I use my gas hob. It uses a fraction of the fuel that my car does. Easily less than 10%. Frying on an electric hob is hardly good for your lungs either. This is just rage porn.

What does the amount of fuel compared to a car matter at all in regards to indoor air quality?

I address indoor air quality with my first sentence, carbon emissions with my second, and indoor air quality again with my third.

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Post by ceejayoz »

throwaway22032 wrote: post #6

I open the window and turn on the extractor fan when I use my gas hob. It uses a fraction of the fuel that my car does. Easily less than 10%. Frying on an electric hob is hardly good for your lungs either. This is just rage porn.

> I open the window and turn on the extractor fan when I use my gas hob.

Good. One of the possible interventions is to make ventillation a building code requirement.

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Post by ccalloway »

mikrl wrote: post #7

It’s politicized too which is ridiculous. I’ve seen takes that being pro gas cookery is right-wing. Yes, it’s obvious that gas heat and cooking could cause respiratory issues due to combustion. As a gourmand though, cooking on a gas range is the best experience wrt temp control and convenience. I prefer an electric oven, and the heating system I’m impartial to, though radiant hot water is what I fondly remember from…

The thing about burning gas for heat in your home is that it's either very clean, or there is something seriously wrong with your system. There is no scope for it causing 'respiratory issues' except in a setup so broken that it's not legal (or shouldn't be legal) to operate.

Unlike for example a wood stove which might release some smoke into your house, at a level where it's not good for you, but not violently toxic.

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Post by fvdessen »

api wrote: post #5
h2odragon wrote: post #2

So who is paying for this week's "gas stoves should be banned" PR push, then?

The makers of high power battery stoves maybe? For those who don't know these are stoves that have on board batteries allowing them to generate, for a period of time, far more heat than an ordinary house circuit would be able to power. This replicates some of the advantages of gas. But honestly I think the ban gas stoves thing is brought to you by the same people who gave us bans on plastic straws. "Let's maximally i…

The reason why there’s a battle about gas stoves is that people care a lot more about the way they cook than the way they heat their house, but if they cook with gas, then they heat with gas. So if you want to push people away from gas heating towards electric heat pumps, then you need to attack gas stoves
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