{"id":864,"date":"2023-01-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/?p=864"},"modified":"2023-01-18T21:32:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T01:32:30","slug":"now-were-cooking-with-gas-but-for-how-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/2023\/01\/19\/now-were-cooking-with-gas-but-for-how-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Now We’re Cooking With Gas, But For How Long?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recently there has been a lot of press about comments made by U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commissioner\u00a0Richard Trumka Jr., suggesting that the agency might ban gas stoves dues to concerns that they cause indoor air pollution((See “Is a proposed ban on gas stoves imminent or just noise? Here\u2019s what you need to know<\/a>“)) and many others claiming the response ot be an over-reaction.((E.g., Drew Shenemen’s cartoon and editorial “The culture wars hit the kitchen<\/a>” (paywall); “How the humble gas stove became the latest flash point in the culture wars<\/a>“)) The effort has been made to minimize Trumka’s comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think that Trumka was chosen to float up a trial balloon and take the heat (get it?) for threatening the beloved gas stove. His comments were not the first suggestion that the government does not favor using natural gas as an energy source.((See, for example, “Cities tried to cut natural gas from new homes. The GOP and gas lobby preemptively quashed their effort.<\/a>“)) Governor Phil Murphy’s energy master plan<\/a> seeks to eliminate its use in this State by 2050.((NJ.com has published a number of individual editorials that can provide additional insight into this facet of the plan: “Murphy\u2019s ambitious energy plan will saddle taxpayers with additional expenses<\/a>” (pointing out that natural gas heats three-quarters of the NJ’s homes and accounts for half the state\u2019s electricity generation); “Cooking with gas? Not if Governor Murphy\u2019s plan goes through<\/a>;” and “State\u2019s Energy Master Plan is priceless – but not in a good way<\/a>” (DEP corrected projection that conversion of boilers from gas to electric would increase costs by 4.2 to 4.9 percent, true projected costs are 4.2 to 4.9 times <\/em>as much<\/a>).))<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They all seem to prefer electricity, too bad about the cost. How much more gasoline will we need to burn to run even bigger generators the next time that power is out for days at a time during freezing weather?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jay Bohn<\/p>\n\n\n\n

January 19, 2023 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently there has been a lot of press about comments made by U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commissioner\u00a0Richard Trumka Jr., suggesting that the agency might ban gas stoves dues to concerns that they cause indoor air pollution((See “Is a proposed ban on gas stoves imminent or just noise? Here\u2019s what you need to know“)) and many … Continue reading “Now We’re Cooking With Gas, But For How Long?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}