Opinion: Why the gas stove outrage? They're a gateway appliance.
Can Gas Ovens Really Make You Sick?: A national debate over a potential gas stove ban is shedding light on health concerns. Here's what respiratory experts say about your health and potential gas oven pollution.Gas stoves are a leading source of hazardous indoor air pollution, but they emit only a tiny share of the greenhouse gases that warm the climate.
Nevertheless, congressional Republicans raced to the barricades, introducing bills with titles like the Guard America’s Stoves Act and the Stop Trying to Obsessively Vilify Energy Act. The climate doesn’t care what fuel we use to cook. Gas stoves account for just 0.1 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, even accounting for recent findings of larger than expected household methane leaks. They aren’t a big share of fuel sales either, burning just 3 percent of the natural gas consumed in homes.The significance of gas stoves for the climate becomes clearer in the context of the Biden administration’s goal of achieving net-zero U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
President Joe Biden has set a goal of 100 percent clean electricity nationally by 2035. Although current federal policies fall short of that target, a growing number of states have committed to 100 percent clean electricity by 2050 or sooner. Replacing existing gas furnaces and water heaters with electric heat pumps can be costly and complicated, though incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act can help. But if new homes are built fully electric from the start, they avoid the cost of installing natural gas hookups, and emit far less air pollution and fewer greenhouse gases throughout the homes’ lifetime.
The American Gas Association has promoted the notion that gas stoves make skilled cooks since the 1930s, when it introduced the advertising slogan “Now you’re cooking with gas.” An AGA executive planted the phrase with writers for comedian Bob Hope. Soon it was picked up by comedian Jack Benny, and even by Daffy Duck. The phrase has also appeared over time in social media endorsements and hashtags.
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