The topic of gas stoves ignited a heated debate last year when a Biden appointee suggested they could be banned because they posed a risk to human health.

But a ban isn’t in the works — and this week the administration will finalize a scaled-back plan to make new stoves less energy-intensive.

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I can’t find anything regarding a <10 year lifespan, and of the various stoves I’ve had, I only replaced one and that was by choice (I wanted an induction stove, which is kind of amazing!)

If you can source the stat, I’ll allow it, otherwise I’ll have to remove it as misinformation.

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FWIW, USA Today says electric ranges last 13-15 years and gas ranges 20 years.

https://reviewed.usatoday.com/ovens/features/how-long-do-kitchen-appliances-last

Personally I’ll sacrifice that shortened lifespan for breathing less polluted air.

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Cooking on an electric range is miserable. Does the impact of pollutants and carbon offset even cover the cost of replacement given the current efficiency?

I’m all for reduction of pollutants and lessing our carbon footprint, but is this seems like a culture war topic to deflect from actual areas in society were a meaningful impact could be made.

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I also find that claim really odd. Electric stoves are pretty much unbreakable, at least the simple ones are.

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Now if we are talking about washing machines or dishwashers…

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It’s hard to find a simple coil top stove. Most now have computerized controls, those computers don’t last longer than 10 years before the capacitors in them wear out. Cost of repair is the the cost of a new stove.

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The lifetime numbers you give are complete fiction from what I can tell; only way you end up with that is if the home appliance is getting used all day, every day, as if it were installed in a restaurant.

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Is it crazy to think people might cook everyday? Eating everyday? In this economy?

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Cooking every day doesn’t mean “running all burners on the stove 10 hours per day”

There’s a difference between using a stove all day, every day, and cooking meals for one family on it.

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Saving consumers money and having them breathe healthier air is just part of the liberal woke mind virus.

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It’s my freedom to suck on tailpipes and stove exhaust. Those damn libruls better not take that right away from me!

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I like coil top stoves, and hate computers in bedded in stoves.

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Some conservative ghoul, like Clarence Thomas:

This is why the administrative state needs to go.

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For the folks getting the thumbnail from MILFtrip.com because of “awesome kbin image caching bug”. NO, that is not how the DoE is poised. That position is not of modest efficiency. And I highly doubt that would save consumers money on energy bills.

There are zero ways that anything with a MILF is “less energy-intensive”.

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Wow my uh, preview image is rather explicit. I don’t even surf pork on Lemmy, the hell?

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Lemmy and the Washington Post tend to interact really badly. It’s an ongoing problem.

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I read an article about stove top gas regulations for nothing.

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I recommend cooking breakfast the morning after.

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Same. I am aware that KBin has some occasional issues with wrong thumbnails, but this one is absolutely hilarious.

@ernest ?

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Jesus Christ hahaha glad I wasn’t browsing at work!

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