Calls to ban fuel stoves are anti-science, anti-liberty and anti-energy

From Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Instead of educating us about gas stoves with accurate science so we can make better decisions, anti-fossil fuel activists are distorting the science

Alex Epstein

Calls to ban gas stoves are anti-science, anti-liberty and anti-energy

Instead of educating us about gas stoves with accurate science so we can make better decisions, anti-fossil fuel activists are distorting the science to justify forcing their anti-gas agenda on us.

• At the beginning of 2023, a carefully orchestrated campaign in which:

  1. A paper of which the main author is a The anti-fossil fuel activist claims gas stoves cause 12.7% of childhood asthma.
  2. The The federal government and NY proposed bans with new gas stoves.

  We should oppose this campaign.1

• The campaign against gas stoves should be rejected for 3 reasons:
  1. Families have the right to include any real science about gas stoves as they see fit
  2. The claim of 12.7% is a distortion of science
  3. The anti-gas movement threatens our electricity grid and thus our health
• Whether and how to use a gas or electric stove should be a matter of individual and family discretion. For example, many rationally choose a cheaper, more functional gas stove with good ventilation as the best option.
• There are Many decisions families make have far more impact on children’s health than a gas or electric stove: what kind of food children eat, how much exercise they get and how much money parents spend on health compared to other expenses.

  Can governments then dictate all this?

• Does anyone have the right to dictate what parents feed their children, how much exercise children get, and how much of their money families spend on health care?

  no

  she only have the right to convince the parents with good information and arguments. The same applies to gas stoves.

• Whenever someone offers you “science” not to inform your voluntary choices but to impose a ban on you, rest assured that what they call science is a distortion.

  This is certainly the case with the pseudo-precise claim that 12.7% of childhood asthma is due to gas stoves.

• Any confident claim that something specifically causes X% of asthma is nonsense. Asthma is a cluster of symptoms for which researchers have no clear causal picture.

  As the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute states, “The exact cause of asthma is unknown, and causes can vary from person to person.”2

• There is strong evidence that stoves are not a major concern for asthma: In the US, both CA, a state with one of the highest gas stove usages, and ND, a state with one of the lowest gas stove usages, have some of the lowest rates of asthma .3

• Notice that CDC data shows that asthma rates nearly doubled between the 1980s and the mid-1990s, despite a significant drop in air pollution. That is a anticorrelation this contradicts the narrative that pollution is the main cause of asthma.4

The lead author of the paper advocating a gas cooker ban is affiliated with the Rocky Mountain Institute under the direction of Amory Lovins– an anti-energy “energy expert” who has said: “It would be almost catastrophic for us to discover a source of clean, cheap and abundant energy”.6

• Opponents of fossil fuels make the same fallacy over and over again: They advocate restrictions or bans on fossil fuels, ignoring the tremendous benefits of fossil fuels and catastrophizing The negative side effects of fossil fuels.

  Her latest campaign focuses on life-giving natural gas.

• Natural gas is absolutely crucial for our standard of living and therefore our health. Gas is our most important supplier of electricity and provides vital energy for heating and gas stoves.

  The anti-gas movement makes us more dependent on electricity, which is more expensive and less reliable.7

• Note the trend of the anti-fossil fuel movement telling us we must electrify everything and opposing reliable power sources.

  A crucial protection against is the Right to use non-electrical devices: Cars, heaters and stoves. We must fight for this protection.

• The latest asthma surveillance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the most important factors in asthma prevalence are income and ethnicity – where ethnicity is likely another indicator of income.

  As usual, wealth is health.

  Wealth reduction through anti-fossil fuel policies is detrimental to health.8th

• Anti-fossil fuel activists have taken the opportunity to stoke panic over gas stoves. One parroted the invention of “12.7%” and then ran a viral self-experiment that found emissions above recommended levels. His “solution” is not better ventilation, but pushing his agenda.9

Researchers have just found that gas stoves are responsible for 12.7% of childhood asthma cases.

Recently I’ve read dozens of studies on gas stoves and indoor air quality.

I also installed monitors around our house and did my own testing.

Here’s what I learned.

— Michael Thomas (@curious_founder) January 9, 2023

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Calls to ban gas stoves are anti-science, anti-liberty and anti-energy

Instead of educating us about gas stoves with accurate science so we can make better decisions, anti-fossil fuel activists are distorting the science to justify forcing their anti-gas agenda on us.

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— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) January 13, 2023

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