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• Surprise! Most Americans Don’t Want Gas Stoves Banned

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Surprise! Most Americans Don’t Want Gas Stoves Banned

More than two-thirds of Americans are against bans on gas stoves, a new poll from Harvard and Harris Polls has revealed.

As many as 69% of respondents were against a ban, with even Democrats opposing the potential move.

Hands off the gas stoves

The pollsters asked 2,090 Americans about their views on a number of topics, including a gas stove ban.

“Would you favor or oppose governmental rules that would virtually eliminate gas stoves from kitchens?” was how the question was phrased.

In response, 83% of GOP supporters, 55% of Democrat voters, and 71% of independents said they wouldn’t favor it.

Big surprise.

Gas stoves have been a fixture of millions of kitchens for decades.

They’re also the preferred equipment of professional cooks and chefs.

Cooking with gas is cheap and efficient.

But now some people want to convince us it’s also dangerous.

Even more dangerous than second-hand smoke. Yes, really.

We can’t have nice things because some people like to be unhappy

The scare campaign against gas stoves began in January.

A study from a climate change advocacy claimed they cause asthma.

The claims were debunked, but pressure continued to mount.

The gas stove issue even reached Congress because, of course, it would.

Politicians swear there won’t be a nationwide ban on gas stoves.

Yet New York just passed its own statewide ban on gas stoves in new buildings.

And several cities in California have their own bans.

One of these was struck down by a court, by the way, so there’s hope.

Or not: if Congress agrees on federal legislation on gas stoves, anyone could ban them anywhere.

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Pipeline Rupture Within Three Years?

An Indigenous band from Wisconsin has cried foul after a court ruling that gave Enbridge three years to reroute the Line 5 pipeline to avoid Indigenous lands.

Per the band’s lawyers, quoted by Bloomberg, “Three years is more than enough time for Line 5 to suffer a catastrophic rupture”.

So, pipeline ruptures are now a certainty?

A federal judge this month ordered Enbridge to reroute the Line 5 following the lapse of easements ten years ago.

He also ordered the company to pay more than $5 million to the Bad River Band in compensation for the trespassing.

The trespassing is on a whopping 12 miles of band land.

Apparently, the band fears Line 5 will rupture precisely in this section and within three years.

The band is appealing the ruling. Of course, it is.

It also wants the pipe shut down. Of course, it does.

War on pipelines

Opposing pipelines and trying to get them shut down has become a favorite pastime for a lot of activists.

Even though they are the safest way to transport hydrocarbons from one place to another.

Even though pipeline operators have improved their safety standards enormously.

None of that’s relevant, it seems.

Pipelines are evil, and they must die.

So why did that judge not order the shutdown?

Well, shockingly, he cited evidence that a shutdown would lead to—wait for it—fuel shortages.

Because while it may have escaped the attention of pipeline activists, pipelines are not there for kicks.

They are there to transport vital fuels across great distances.

And, shockingly, they don’t exactly rupture every other day.

In the Line 5 saga, common sense has prevailed…but for how long?

Around the Global Patch

🇳🇴 Norway's challenging path, carbon emissions, and oil & gas.
🇧🇷 Prospective Brazilian indie: offshore gas.
🇩🇪 Germany's LEAG transitions to renewable LDES system.

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