Can you help me understand why depreciating natural gas is impactful? Isn't it just virtue signaling at this point?
You can look up studies about how much indoor air pollution it creates for yourself. Google isn't hard to use. "natural gas indoor air pollution" should work. If you have mental trouble understanding how burning things in an enclosed room where people are living and breathing creates air pollution, I don't know what to tell you.
Not exactly sure what the problem with cooking with electricity is.
Once they become more mainstream and proper dials are common they will likely be more liked.
All such cooking puts out harmful air particles. Gas is a fraction more. You need good rangehoods and ventilation to solve this problem. Ventilation should be happening for disease control anyway.
In a world were we showed there are no big plans for big issues, having restaurants being able to serve food in blackouts matter.
To the article, any good chef will adapt, sadly schadenfreude rarely happens.
If there's a big event California won't reap what they sow and everyone dies, Texas will help them out. It's more about death by a thousand cuts to everyone around them.
Wealth that could have been created to solve real problems, including in the poorer states won't happen, ventilation will stay an issue and Bay Area restaurants will keep the hipsters happy for decades to come.
I will let you draw your own conclusions as to the intent of the poster.
2. If this is the worst thing we can find about the ban (a wealthy celebrity chef deciding not to open a chain restaurant in a shopping center) then it has no bearing on my opinion of the ban. We don't complain about bank regulations because they're forced to deny loans to people like this, do we?
In Europe we've been having this gas issue due to the Ukraine war and associated sanctions over and back. Gas went really expensive. A lot of people were wearing extra sweaters and using extra blankets this winter to save money.
From this we've learned that being reliant on Things That Run Out is not a good idea at all.
For all that, it seems like the lesson was only local. I guess people really don't learn lessons vicariously. :-/
Even in a future where the electrical grid is fully nuclear + renewable, using gas for cooking would be a completely affordable luxury and not risky at all.
You can still buy and use a gas stove. You just have to get a cylinder to drive it. You don’t get to freeload off expensive infrastructure that the city and other residents pay for.
