Thread by @rebleber

why is everyone talking about gas stoves?
is it really dangerous?
am i going to have to give up gas cooking?
isn't electric horrible?
what about gas boilers and furnaces?
doesn't electricity also run on fossil fuels?

got some answers for you >>>>

I was interested in gas stoves in 2020, when I was startled that the gas industry was paying instagram influencers to promote #cookingwithgas.

I didn't understand why the industry cared about stoves enough to market them

motherjones.com/environment/20…

Gas stoves DID have an image problem & leading trade orgs were worried. RMI had reviewed the scientific literature that spring on the health risks of gas stoves, and the industry wanted 1) consumers devoted to gas cooking 2) to ward off climate campaigns rmi.org/insight/gas-st…

Choice words from a gas exec in emails foiaed by by @ccspatz confirmed the hunch: the gas industry was worried about the public turning against the gas stove motherjones.com/environment/20…

The gas industry wants to build more pipelines to buildings, new and old. Yes, the power sector still runs on coal and gas but it's fast shrinking its GHG footprint. Laying more pipes in the ground locks us into fossil fuels for decades longer than we have motherjones.com/environment/20…

Explained more on why electrification of the home is a climate solution here, and our options to tackle not just the stove, but all gas appliances: vox.com/energy-and-env…

Before the uproar this week, there was already a big backlash brewing in red states after some cities passed bans on new gas lines to buildings.

20 Republican-led states passed preemption laws banning cities from passing gas bans when I wrote this vox.com/22691755/gas-u…

A profile of one of the watermark moments when NYC, one of the most gas-reliant cities in the country, joined the electrification momentum vox.com/2021/12/16/228…

Say you have decided to ditch the gas. What are your alternatives? Enjoyed this interview with a chef who prefers induction (different from the old electric that most people hate)

A great starting point he recommends is a plug-in induction hotplate vox.com/22744866/tikto…

There are plenty of barriers to electrifying the home. It's hard to report on one-size-fits all solutions, but I do feel pretty confident about things eventually getting easier now that IRA is incentivizing these kinds of products vox.com/energy-and-env…

when I started reporting on this years ago, no one really suspected gas stoves to be a source of methane emissions. It turns out that might have been wrong. Methane leaks are more common than we realized, even when the stove is off. vox.com/2022/1/27/2290…

It's funny the gas industry always promotes the gas stove as "natural gas stove". I'm more mindful about how I use "natural gas" now in my writing. I still use it, because that's what people know it as, but always define it as methane, a fossil fuel vox.com/22912760/natur…

The reason all this blew up this week is because media picked up on the Consumer Product Safety Commissions' Dec decision to consider the health impacts of the stove. There is no regulation yet and never likely to be a ban. I catch up to speed here: vox.com/energy-and-env…

I've written more than a dozen articles on gas stoves, and even more on the natural gas industry over the past 3 years. Will keep chipping away at this and appreciate your tips and commentary (lots of comments already on fireplaces... tbc...)