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If electric stoves are so much better than gas stoves, why do the gas stoves have to be banned?
by GenerWork 3y ago
If electric stoves are so much better than gas stoves, why do the gas stoves have to be banned?
- RC_ITR 3y agoThis is not a bill about cooking efficiency. It’s about health. Asbestos outperforms plaster in burn tests.
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoThen they should regulate health with performance specifications on vent hoods and banning new 80% furnaces. This is just performative governance without doing meaningful work.
- voisin 3y agoI recall reading that even those gas stoves that have acceptable performance in certification tests do not perform to spec in the real world. I think it may have been consumer reports in conjunction with a university - they just stopped testing because not a single one in a single setting performed as advertised. The performative governance was creating standards with no repercussions for not meeting the standards in the real world. The result is horrible indoor air quality linked to a range of health issues, particularly for children.
- purple_ferret 3y agoBecause you can throw in a dirt cheap gas stove in a new build pretty easily.
- rascul 3y agoElectric is easier though.
- bequanna 3y agoAh, so effectively this is just another tax on the poor and middle classes.
- pydry 3y agoThe poor property developers? Edit: why would one assume that it isnt going to be taken out of their profit margins?
- bequanna 3y agoThe people who buy and rent properties. They ultimately pay the price for artificially increased material/labor costs.
- swexbe 3y agoYou think a manhattan apartment costs what it does because of the electric stove?
- nonethewiser 3y agoThis is the definition of cherry picking. Not to mention misrepresenting his argument.
- Thorrez 3y agoSo is global warming.
- bequanna 3y agoCould you expand on that?
- Thorrez 3y agoPoor people will be more impacted by global warming than rich people, because poor people tend to live in hotter climates, have less access to A/C, are more dependent on crop production for their livelihoods, and food prices impact them more since more of their income goes to food. I guess it's more of a tax on the poor than on the middle class.
- cycrutchfield 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
- Clamchop 3y agoPlenty has been written about how we got here. I won't repeat it here but suffice it to say, it doesn't appear that consumers fairly weighing their options and choosing the "better" one had much to do with it. I don't think people care so much about ovens as they do ranges, and there seems to be little awareness of induction. So when Americans think electric, they think coil burner, and those are awful.
- nonethewiser 3y ago> If electric stoves are so much better than gas stoves, why do the gas stoves have to be banned? Because they’re not