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!
