HOW DARE YOU!
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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I have an eight burner, dual oven gas range and I love it. The vent can lift a small child and it sounds like an aircraft engine. Needless to say, I’m not too concerned about this.
Here in Panama, many cook with gas (if not wood) because electricity is considered much more expensive and the typical Panamanian has to stretch their budgets however they can so my apartment is equipped with a gas stove and a gas clothes dryer (most Panamanians dry clothes on good old fashioned clotheslines) but I also have an electric refrigerator/freezer and a microwave oven/toaster. Living in the Chiriqui mountains, I almost never need air conditioning or heating, which really brings down the cost. In the city or the lowlands, however, an AC is essential.
What I fear about gas stoves is forgetting to turn off the oven after I’m done cooking. Thankfully, I’m not a smoker.
I hope no one explains to her how HVAC units work.
If there is anything the “Atlantic” knows about, it’s obnoxious gases.
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LOLOL!! True!
“Just what we need, another ‘expert’ with mental illness.”
I just about choked on my coffee a few years ago at a conference when a woman stood up and asked a stupid question to the presenter.
The presenter paused a moment, and calmly asked the woman, “Have you seen your psychiatrist recently?”
The attendees lost it laughing uncontrollably.
I keep that in my head for future use.
Gas stoves... used for more than a hundred years without incident - but suddenly anecdotal evidence says they cause asthma.
Even though families with electric stoves have kids with asthma.
SCIENCE! (And, of course, it was leftists like her that started the anti-vax craze)
; )
Hahahah! The ultimate lefty solution! You nailed it!
HOW DARE YOU!
Absolutely true.
But unless mommy is cooking on the stove 24/7 there is going to be little of those fumes to make it into baby’s lungs.
More likely, if it is air pollutants at all that is causing the asthma, would be the offlaying of synthetic materials in the house. Things like carpet and furniture give of gasses from the foam and upholstery.
I doubt very much that asthma is caused by burning natural gas. I grew up in the 1960s and 70s. Our house had a gas Furness, range and water heater. Cars burned leaded gas for most of my childhood. Asthma was very rare in my generation. I never knew anyone with asthma until I was in my twenties. My mother cooked for 10 so that unvented range got a workout.
The air in today’s homes is far cleaner than probably anytime in human history. Consider that 100 years ago, when asthma was rare, many homes were heated by coal or wood stoves that were poorly vented. I very much doubt that it is pollutants in home that is causing asthma.
It may well be the opposite.
Bull schiff. Next thing you know they’ll be saying the climate is changing and we have to give up all petroleum.
I installed an unvented propane fireplace for my brother and it worked fine for a few years.
Then one year is started smelling real bad. He accused the gas company of adding too much ethyl mercaptan, the rotten egg smell so you know if you have a gas leak.
Ends up, during the summer, new kitchen cabinets that were natural oak with a varnish finish had been installed. Sevrral months later in the fall, the mixture of the gas fumes from the fireplace combined with the varnish smell of the new cabinets to create the unusual smell.
It went away after a few months.
You just had to poke the swarming bees didn't you?
She should make a brush shelter for her family in an open field and eat wild grains.
Natural gas is made of atoms, and atom bombs are also made of atoms. So, don’t use gas stoves unless you want to vaporize thousands of children, and poison the oceans for millions of years with radioactive fallout.
Sincerely,
Fact Checkers at The Atlantic
Red dye #2 killed everybody in the 70’s. How can this be?
In NYS, with our sky high electricity rates and grid issues, we’re not going back to an electric stove any time soon.
I prefer cooking with gas in any case.
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