Posted on 06/01/2021 8:43:02 AM PDT by karpov
A growing fight is unfolding across the U.S. as cities consider phasing out natural gas for home cooking and heating, citing concerns about climate change, and states push back against these bans.
Major cities including San Francisco, Seattle, Denver and New York have either enacted or proposed measures to ban or discourage the use of the fossil fuel in new homes and buildings, two years after Berkeley, Calif., passed the first such prohibition in the U.S. in 2019.
The bans in turn have led Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kansas and Louisiana to enact laws outlawing such municipal prohibitions in their states before they can spread, arguing that they are overly restrictive and costly. Ohio is considering a similar measure.
The outcome of the battle, largely among Democratic-led cities and Republican-run states, has the potential to reshape the future of the utility industry, and demand for natural gas, which the U.S. produces more of than any other country.
Proponents of phasing out natural gas say their aim is to reduce planet-warming emissions over time by fully electrifying new homes and buildings as wind and solar farms proliferate throughout the country, making the power grid cleaner.
Homes and businesses account for about 13% of the nation’s annual greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, mostly because natural gas is used in cooking, heating, and washers and dryers. Climate activists say reducing that percentage is critical for states with goals to slash carbon emissions in the coming decades.
Opponents in the gas industry counter by citing the higher costs of making many homes fully electric, and pointing to the added security of having a second home energy source to heat and cook with during extreme weather events.
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And when the electricity goes out in northern cities and old people freeze to death then it will be Trump’s fault.
NG is literally one of the cleanest forms of energy in existence.
Sometimes I wonder if these MFers are trying to kill us.
The answer to that question should be easy to discern.
The WSJ also left out that proponents of the natural gas ban are suffer from mass delusion since “Anthropomorphic Climate Change” is a scientifically provable lie ...
and when the power goes out or rolling blackouts(more likely) what then
There is no pleasing these people. We shouldn't bother trying.
Sometimes I wonder if these MFers are trying to kill us.
Yes, they are.
Dear God, please let it start already!
Crazy
They are so blind to global warming that they cannot see the forest through the trees.
“Sometimes I wonder if these MFers are trying to kill us.”
Sometimes? If Your not part of their cabal, your on their list.
“Fossil” fuels
“Fossil” fuels
Again...another example of a easy target for the GOP-e which they will ignore.
Also more proof that the Clinton’s are gone and the radical left from CA has really been running the DNC since 2006.
The better to freeze people to death with when the power goes out!
The Useful idiots believe in Gore- bull warming. Not their Marxist overlords. Once the Marxists take over the North American continent will pollute like China
This slowly taking away life by elites must stop. I hope the good extraresterals take away the bad ones harming humans. I’ll Dream on.
We had single digits in south Texas for a week this year. That’s cold for New York. We have crappy insulation, these homes are wimpy
I have a gas stove and a gas fireplace. That was the only Thing between us and 18 degrees inside my house. I have spoken with locals who couldn’t believe the cold permeated the inside of the house
The global warming bs measures that took over failed.
If I had 22 percent more of my earnings or even 10 percent more That the government takes to do whatever it is they do with it, I could fool around with solar. But I did not hear good things from the solar dependent people
When I was a kid in LI we had a two week power outage during 20 degrees.
I have always been a conservationist. Does that mean I’m supposed to not depend on my self and my family to keep the house in survivable conditions?
I sure don’t trust Beto orourke to do it.
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