Comments on: Gas stoves live to light another day

By: junior

junior — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 17:08:00 +0000

Auntie Analog –

I doubt they’ll try and sell natural gas abroad. Pipelines are the only convenient way to get it around. Sending it to Europe and Asia won’t happen in amounts that matter to us because the stuff is difficult and expensive to safely ship. It’s possible to ship it. But it’s not practical in bulk. And the US (and I’m guessing Canada) produces absurd quantities of the stuff to the point where the stuff we could ship out is just a small fraction of what we produce.

By: TJ

TJ — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 06:40:40 +0000

At the top, SHIREHOME: “As far as I know they are still trying that here in CO.”

It started in Colorado by politics at the eco-wacko Rocky Mountain Institute.
It’s a Hail Mary pass attempt, if only because the rate of asthma in states with the most NG stoves is significantly lower than TPW here use is lowest (California)

A hypothesis refuted by ugly fact.

By: Molly Brown

Molly Brown — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 06:39:08 +0000

Still think I’ll replace my 21 year old gas oven/range soon – I don’t trust these b$$tds as far as I can throw them!
Susanamantha,
My original washer lasted 19 years, the next one 7 and the current is 5.
They are getting worse instead of better.
At least for now you can still find top loaders with a full size center post agitator but it takes some looking. Ditto for water level choice and second rinse options. Which will actually get clothes clean.
I have no patience with friends and family that complain about appliances and still vote Dem.

By: SHIREHOME

SHIREHOME — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 04:27:23 +0000

Chris B, funny you should mention power outages. Our neighborhood just had a 3 hr outage. We are having high winds so probably wires down/crossed, transformer out. We could have cooked but it was the evening and didn’t need too this time. Love the NG stove top

By: Ray SoCa

Ray SoCa — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 04:18:28 +0000

Craigslist and OfferUp are good sources for older washers and dryers. Residential Front loaders are expensive to fix, and usually don’t clean as well.

For gas stoves I now buy from a used appliance store to avoid issues.

Donald Trumps straight talk on shower heads made me into a supporter of his. It’s such a huge issue, that I’ve never heard any other politician mention.

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 00:39:21 +0000

My wife grew up with electric. We redid our kitchen and I insisted on replacing the electric cooktop with gas (I hardly ever get involved with interior design choices). She quickly became a convert and would never switch back.

By: Auntie Analogue

Auntie Analogue — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 00:17:27 +0000

Forcing Americans to surrender gas stoves is a means of the ruling Open Border$ Globali$t elite to rake in mega-riches from monopolizing and selling American natural gas to foreign powers, for which the elite’s “health hazard” rationale against gas stoves is a transparent fig leaf.

By: junior

junior — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 23:57:03 +0000

Steve Walsh –

It’s not just “health concerns”. It’s “for the children”. When legit, that’s typically one of the strongest draws.

By: om

om — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 23:48:05 +0000

My ex-wife’s Grandmother, Grandma Williams, cooked all her life with a wood stove. She was in her late 80s in the 1980’s at the time and had refused all offers from her children to change to gas or electric stove. ‘All the work of splitting and hauling the wood up from the basement, and so much more comvenient, Mom.’ It wasn’t entitely a question of money; as she was very frugal, having been widowed in the late 1930s with two young children, she was an excellent cook with that stove. A woman of great character.

By: Chris B

Chris B — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 23:26:51 +0000

We just had a new gas stove installed today. Here in Michigan between DTE and Consumers Energy, electricity is expensive and power outages are frequent, often lasting for days. Even now you can’t rely on electricity, and it’s only going to get worse in the future.