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Gas stove is always polluting, even when it’s turned off

• Comevius 5y ago
  In an ideal world we would be able to quickly phase out gas stoves, but we live in a world where a company can pour a few million dollars into social media, create a new conspiracy theory about induction stoves and an equivalence between gas stoves, traditional values and not being a namby-pamby sheep. In an ideal world the government would also ensure that everyone can afford a new induction stove, even if the tax payers have to chip in, because this is literally the best use of money. But again, a few million dollars, conspiracies, this is communism and so on. The ideal world would still let us screw each other over, but it would let us do that for millions of years instead of decades. Sustainability is everything, the rest can be fixed later.
  • captainredbeard 5y ago
    > In an ideal world we would be able to quickly phase out gas stoves What if I like my gas stove?
    • bradknowles 5y ago
      What if my gas stove continues to work, even when the power goes out?
    • asteroidp 5y ago
      Obviously that makes you a shill rolling in sweet sweet conspiracy money
    • Comevius 5y ago
      That's not a problem, just pay for the pollution either by renting from the carbon budget the planet can naturally handle or by renting from the decarbonization budget. Better yet your gas company should take care of it and just put it on the bill. That would be the obvious market solution on a spaceship, but not on planet, even though a planet is a spaceship. This also means that there is barely any decarbonization innovation, because you can't do much from donations. We need a market solution for pricing the externalities, no matter how painful it is.