The gas debate literally hits us close to home, writes Clarence Page. I grew up hearing my mother argue tirelessly for the superiority of gas over electric stoves. But I think even Mom would be impressed by the efficiency of today’s induction cooktops.
A gas-burning stove is offered for sale at a home improvement store on January 12, 2023 in Chicago. Consumers and politicians voiced concern after the commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission recently suggested that gas stoves were a health hazard, leading people to believe that they would be banned.
“I’ll NEVER give up my gas stove,” tweeted Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas. “If the maniacs in the White House come for my stove, they can pry it from my cold dead hands. COME AND TAKE IT!!”Rest easy, Ronny. Reassurance comes from no less than Richard Trumka Jr., a Biden appointee to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which is responsible for regulating more than 15,000 household products and appliances, including stoves.
Consumer Reports also urged consumers in October to consider going electric in their next oven purchase after tests found high levels of nitrogen oxide gas from gas stoves. in most homes and other new buildings in 2019, mostly to reduce carbon emissions that contribute to climate change.Now environmentalists, consumer advocates and others want Chicago to join New York, Los Angeles and Boston in bans against the use of natural gas in most new construction. Speaking at a news conference Wednesday at Chicago’s City Hall, the Sierra Club’s Illinois chapter director, Jack Darin,Yet, bold action bubbles up vigorously on the pro-gas side too.
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