Banning new gas installations is an easy one. We should not be pumping gas into people’s homes.
Wood fireplaces is a tough one. The ACT did it, but we don’t burn wood for electricity and wood isn’t as prone to leaking. The problem is that wood smoke is carcinogenic.
About time. Modern induction cooktops heat up at least as quickly as gas, and don’t put the inhabitants at risk of asthma.
Yeah induction is superior to gas in all cooking applications except for stir frying, and developments are catching up to improve in that area too.
Frankly, as someone who’s had resistive electric heating cooktops for more than the last decade, even that’s fine for most cooking. A little slow to get going, but if you’re cooking a stew or a pasta sauce or frying up some sausage and bacon, the lead-time is the only difference, and it’s a miniscule amount of the total cooking time anyway.
As someone who has only ever used an electric stovetop in his entire 35 year life (SE USA), y’all will live. Trust me. My stir fry is fine.
