• deegeese
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    2 months ago

    If that’s right, you don’t need to ban gas cooking, just ban residential heating and let the market take care of it.

    Y’all just want to tear shit down to pat yourselves on the back.

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      2 months ago

      Definitely could do it that way. But everybody is better off if we do it in a planned way instead of leaving people to deal with that kind of a mess.

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        2 months ago

        So whats the plan to replace gas in commercial kitchens? Oh wait there isn’t one.

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          2 months ago

          Two options right now:

          1. Run new electrical lines to them capable of providing for their actual needs
          2. Propane
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            Propane doesn’t offer the benefits you seem to think it does. It’s more expensive and the distribution system for it likely has as many issues as the natural gas does. Going after natural gas distribution while we still have larger and more significant sources of emissions is a minuscule bandage solution at best. At worst it solves a very minor source of emissions problems at a major cost in both money and convenience.

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              2 months ago

              Those commercial and residential emissions - those are largely about the fuels burned in buildings. 14% of the total is enough to matter — and when we’re running out of time to get emissions to zero, we need to cut it all to zero, not pick and choose.