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I have a gas stove, furnace, and water heater. I can tell you that the furnace is about 90 percent plus of my total gas usage annually. If you want to ban anyt
by etempleton 5y ago
I have a gas stove, furnace, and water heater. I can tell you that the furnace is about 90 percent plus of my total gas usage annually.
If you want to ban anything, ban the installation of new gas / oil furnaces, but that is going to only increase demand on the grid and delay the removal of coal power plants.
I don’t really think banning residential or even commercial gas makes a whole lot of sense. Focus on removing coal/oil/gas power plants first. Natural gas will still make a great backup to renewable sources of energy production, but ideally it is emergency use only.
- frankbreetz 5y agoThis is the problem with how the whole climate movement is being handled. The vast majority of the problem is corporations, but the media focuses on individual action. I get why people are skeptical and think it is simply the government is reaching for more control. Here is the line of reasoning: Why am I not allowed to have a gas stove, but I can see huge amounts of pollution from factories and power plants being dumped into the environment? If it were an actual problem wouldn't politicians focus on the bigger portions of pollution? Wouldn't they focus on the things that wouldn't affect average people? It is easier to demonize these people as "anti-science", but they have a valid point. Look at this past year with COVID, virtually all traffic and personal emissions stoped and we only saw about a 10% drop in emissions.