Posted on 10/17/2020 7:46:42 AM PDT by Tallguy
Heather Price knows her way around gases. An atmospheric chemist at North Seattle College, she studies outdoor air pollution, the flow and change of chemicals in Earth’s atmosphere. But she wasn’t worried about the gas stove in her own home before her son developed asthma and, at two and a half years old, had to use his inhaler multiple times a day. She started to wonder: Was gas making her family sick? Sign up for The Atlantic’s daily newsletter. Price’s house ran on natural gas—“gas stove, gas furnace, gas hot-water heater,” she says. In American homes, this setup is quite common, but gas appliances—and gas stoves in particular—have costs. Cooking on a gas stove unleashes some of the same fumes found in car exhaust. If those fumes are not vented outside the house, they linger and sneak into lungs.
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Just what we need, another ‘expert’ with mental illness.
If there is anything the “Atlantic” knows about, it’s obnoxious gases.
Sorry. But The Atlantic is Marxist pure and simple. Shouldn’t even be presented for mockery. Everyone here should know what It really is by now.
Articles written either by dyed in the wool marxists or useful idiots.
Hmmm... some scientist. It apparently escapes her that “correlation is not causation”.
At the beginning of each new day...I don’t make a move until I’ve received my daily lecture from the Left.
They never disappoint.
The Atlantic is run by the Prozac ladies of NPR.
Gas appliances are vented
If she’s that sensitive to combustion products and particulate matter, one bong hit would kill her like sarin.
We’re all gonna die! (By method #674)
I have asthma. I have cooked on a gas stove for 20 years with no issues. I love my gas stove a d would not give it up for anything. The byproducts or burning natural gas on the stove are CO2 and water nothing like car exhaust and neither will bother your asthma.
If her gas stove exacerbated her son’s asthma, then the stove was probably defective or improperly installed - not the natural gas...
Natural gas is the best and cheapest way to run the appliances in your home. Obviously you want to make sure you have things properly vented. That’s just common sense. I also have natural gas powering my furnace and instant hot water heater. After having moved from a home with heating oil, I’ve cut my utility costs by 2/3. I’m never going back.
Yes, exactly. That's why we have these things called "flues", and "vent hoods".
So what's their point anyway? Probably something like "buy a total electric house and opt for a higher billing rate so you can say your house is powered by the windmills?"
Seems to be where they would be going with such stuff.
Fumes generally means odor.
CO is odorless.
If her stove is smelly, maybe incomplete combustion, that is a damaged stove.
What is she cooking on that stove? Vegan, free gluten, ....
Mayby that’s making the kid sick.
I now think we need to mandate mask wearing in every home that uses natural gas in any way. If it can save even one life....
Funny how the word ‘hypochondriac’ fell into disuse while the actual prevalence of the condition has exploded.
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