toobfreak
Tungsten/Glass Member
About as many suffer shocks and electrocutions, not to add that about ten wildfires are started every year just from birds landing on wires.so, no advantage there, plus NG has aleways been touted as clean and affordable. Try lighting your gas range---- where is the pollution? Smell anything? The first thing I want to see proven is the research that shows the banning of gas stoves would amount to ANYTHING comparable to justifying the cost, trouble and expense of banning gas stoves!At least 430 people in the United States die of unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning every year. And 50,000 people visit the ER for accidental carbon monoxide poisoning annually
Meantime, look in any restaurant and you will find gas EVERYTHING because gas heat is superior in every way for cooking. No self-respecting chef cooks with electric burners for a reason.
So what? Adding GFI is a very minor, insignificant addition to the circuit with no real cost or liability. Mandating the elimination of the most common and preferred energy source for cooking with no dramatic benefit is pure stupidity. Worse, the fed HAS NO FUCKING LEGAL AUTHORITY to make that decision for everyone in the first place. What next, the federal idiots will ban convertible car tops to cut down on wind noise?They mandated rewiring houses with GFCI/AFCI circuits just to save 400 electrocutions and over 4000 non-fatal injuries every year in the United States.
Ha! So today, now the GOP are "overprotective" and working for Big Insurance?! Leave it to the idiot Left: While the GOP are looking at killing an already over-inflated and vindictive federal IRS agency from adding massive cost of hiring and training 87,000 agents (figure at least 3-4 billion just to train them a year then another 20 billion a year just in labor and maintenance costs to collect an imaginary bonus additional tax revenue from people already broke that probably doesn't even exist, and would be abusive and confiscatory at best, the democrats are worried about all the REAL cutting-edge problems like illegal alien's rights and schools using the arbitrary, preferred pronouns of a few dysphoric teenage malcontents and firing people from their jobs if they don't comply.So I can see the overprotective republican bureaucrats banning gas appliances to protect the insurance companies.