Americans’ Gas Stoves Are as Bad for Climate as 500k Cars
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Re: Americans’ Gas Stoves Are as Bad for Climate as 500k Cars
#2Swapping a gas stove for an electric can easily cost double the price of the stove. Consider running a 30, 40, or possibly even 50 amp circuit and capping or removing the gas line. Neither of these tasks are ones that are ok to be done poorly.
Re: Americans’ Gas Stoves Are as Bad for Climate as 500k Cars
#3Swapping a gas stove for an electric can easily cost double the price of the stove. Consider running a 30, 40, or possibly even 50 amp circuit and capping or removing the gas line. Neither of these tasks are ones that are ok to be done poorly.
And that's before you even turn it on.
Electricity is far more expensive per BTU than gas pretty much anywhere with municipal gas.
Re: Americans’ Gas Stoves Are as Bad for Climate as 500k Cars
#4So Americans' gas stoves are as bad for the climate as ~0.2% of Americans' cars.
Re: Americans’ Gas Stoves Are as Bad for Climate as 500k Cars
#5The title could be re written as "Americans’ gas stoves are as bad for the climate as less than 1% of US all cars".
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Re: Americans’ Gas Stoves Are as Bad for Climate as 500k Cars
#7I'm very environmentally conscious but personally I'm gonna switch to an electric vehicle and heat pump before changing my stove to an electric one I think.
I will make sure to have proper ventilation when cooking though from now on, I wasn't aware of the health aspect of all the byproducts of cooking with gas.
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#9My father in law, a quite intelligent person with a non-technical background, asked me a really good question re: electric appliances and vehicles.
He was holding off on getting an electric car, because he didn't understand how it could possibly be more efficient and cost-effective to use gas appliances in the home, but suddenly it's more efficient and cost-effective to use electric motors in cars.
Of course the problem is that generating heat with electricity is probably easiest done by spark-gapping to start a fire, and letting the fire generate heat, whereas generating motion with electromagnetism is quite easy compared to harnessing explosions to transfer to movement.
At any rate, I'd say let's replace cars first, then come after home appliances. They're relatively efficient at their job.
Re: Americans’ Gas Stoves Are as Bad for Climate as 500k Cars
#10Swapping a gas stove for an electric can easily cost double the price of the stove. Consider running a 30, 40, or possibly even 50 amp circuit and capping or removing the gas line. Neither of these tasks are ones that are ok to be done poorly.
And that's before you even turn it on. Electricity is far more expensive per BTU than gas pretty much anywhere with municipal gas.
Do you have a source that quantifies it? Something along the lines of "It costs 5 cents to make a box of macaroni and cheese using gas, but 7 cents using electricity".
I just moved from a condo that used electricity for cooking to a house that uses natural gas for cooking. Same number of people in the household and same amount of cooking done. How much less am I paying? $1? $10? Is it enough to matter?