There is no way to parody the push from government agencies to ban gas stoves. We are officially post-parodic.
Using literally no threat to anyone's health or well being, our overlords are seeking to ban the use of a form of cooking employed by 40% of our population, rich and poor alike, and that number would certainly be higher if, like me, people could make the switch from their stupid electric stoves.
Toqueville famously said, "No sooner does a government attempt to go beyond its political sphere... than it exercises... insupportable tyranny."
Truly, it is insupportable tyranny for a capricious bureaucracy randomly to decide to invade the privacy of the home to impose its will on a matter that endangers no one. Did we embolden them by rashly and unreasonably bowing to mask mandates? Did we signal, somehow, that we were docile by accepting the harsh, laboratory-worthy, jagged light of LEDs without a whimper? Were we inattentive when they abused their power by making our other appliances inefficient and wasteful (viz. dishwashers)?
Well, whatever the reason, we are facing a looming intrusion we will come to regret. Bless Gov. Ron DeSantis for pointing out that in the recent hurricane, people would have been sunk without their gas stoves (something that troubles me in our frequent power outages here in the rolling hills of Central Massachusetts, and the reason I will convert to gas as soon as possible, though maybe I should consider a wood-burning range like my grandmother had).
"But Leila, you know, maybe there is something to the idea that gas stoves are harmful, as the experts warn us."
Please read this thread before you succumb completely to totalitarian brainwashing, because no, they are not harmful unless you try to use them in a hermetically sealed room. Please:
With all the talk about #gasstoves and alleged health threats, it's worth providing some background on where the research currently is on this issue, and how the feds suddenly decided these appliances are a health risk.
— Steve Everley (@saeverley) January 11, 2023
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Click on that to read the whole thing, all the way down.
Don't miss this:
First of all, the largest analysis of any link between gas stoves & childhood asthma (500,000+ children sampled worldwide) found “no evidence of an association between the use of gas as a cooking fuel and either asthma symptoms or asthma diagnosis.” https://t.co/vNADeKBKVv
— Steve Everley (@saeverley) January 11, 2023
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Keep reading... there's this <headdesk>
Interestingly, when the UCLA team's data are compared to the correct metric, it shows emissions well below established health standards. See this review of the UCLA paper for more on that.
— Steve Everley (@saeverley) January 11, 2023
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Kicker:
How did they arrive at that conclusion? The environment they created involved encasing a kitchen in plastic sheets, removing any ventilation, and then turning on the gas.
— Steve Everley (@saeverley) January 11, 2023
No, really. From the study itself.
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I have an idea -- let's not let them do this!
The puzzling thing is that we're building dwellings where it is literally impossible to open windows, but then we talk about banning gas stoves. A relative of ours lives in a modern luxury apartment building: she can't open her bedroom window and she can slide the living room window open for a grand total of 4 inches. I don't know how that doesn't drive her crazy, I don't even understand how that's considered healthy and normal. We live drenched in chemical agents, we have RoundUp residue in tons of foods... and we talk about banning gas stoves. Things have just stopped making sense, it's all a show driven by irrational activists who are drunk on power.
ReplyDeleteBut the gas stove talk clearly could go nowhere. Restaurants would have rebelled, and how could an exception be made, if the claim is that gas stoves are *bad for you*? And what about all the rich people with their mile-wide Wolf ranges... you'd have to pry them from their dead cold hands!
Let's wait and see what they come up with next...
(too lazy to log into my Google acct - Lynne)
ReplyDeleteSo gas stoves are dangerous but gas water heaters and dryers are safe, right? What about gas furnaces?
New buildings are not being built with gas connections. They want us to only use electricity.
What I am wondering though, is how can we "not let them do this?" Apparently, the government (of any country - I live in Canada and they are just the same, or even worse) just does what they like now, and people who seriously try to not let them end up in jail.
ReplyDeleteWell here in the US we can certainly bombard our senators and congressmen with our dismay and the facts! And we can be vocal about both of those things.
DeleteEnvironmental regulations have already made for washing machines to be less effective. We have six children and when we replaced the washing machine that came with the house my husband was bound and determined to buy one without computerized parts so that we could make the inevitability necessary repairs ourselves. We discovered the whole subculture of SpeedQueen devotees… Long story short, the new machines are not as effective as the old ones. Even for a brand committed to longevity. There are similar regulations on dishwasher water use.
ReplyDeleteSo again, it’s a follow the money thing. Who benefits? Why? Natural gas is cheap and abundant in our part of the country, and yet there are so many incentives for less efficient “green” energy sources.
On the old (new!) machine, the clothes simply weren’t getting clean on the normal setting. It’s absurd to claim you are saving water when I have to run two cycles or extra heavy duty cycles for normal soil levels for satisfactory results, but that’s how we got by for a while.
Reminds me of 1984 when the propaganda says the economy keeps getting better and better, but the food just gets worse and nobody has any razor blades.