Remember, they said they weren’t coming for your gas stove, and then do everything to say your gas stove needs to go
A new study has found that gas-powered appliances can increase the levels of the chemical benzene, a known cancer-causing agent found in cigarette smoke, inside the home.
According to the Stanford-led study, which was published in Environmental Science & Technology, “indoor concentrations of benzene formed in the flames of gas stoves can be worse than average concentrations from secondhand smoke,” as a news release about the study explained.
While lawmakers, experts, and just about everyone else debate potential bans on gas stoves, consumers may want to block out the noise and consider switching to electric sooner rather than later.
Not only can energy-efficient electric appliances save homeowners a ton of money on their monthly energy bills, these appliances can also improve the air quality inside homes and mitigate potential health issues, especially among young children. Plus, with new tax breaks, these high-end appliances may be available at steeply discounted rates.
In other words, switch before government forces you to switch. Of course, government is already banning them for new construction in Democrat run states
In 29% of a subset of the cases examined, the study found that “a single gas burner on high or an oven set to 350 degrees Fahrenheit raised kitchen benzene concentrations above the upper range of indoor benzene concentrations attributable to secondhand tobacco smoke.”
Subset of how many? “We sampled 87 stoves in 14 counties in California and Colorado between January and December 2022.” 87 seems a pretty small sample. And the subset?
We quantified kitchen benzene concentrations after stove use in a 17-home subset of our emission factor sample (using 33 distinct burner and oven measurements; see methods). A single gas or propane burner on high or oven set to 350 °F for 45 min raised kitchen benzene concentrations above the baseline in every kitchen that we tested (Figure 2). This result suggests that gas stoves can contribute substantively to elevated benzene concentrations indoors. Additionally, in 9 of the 33 cases (29%), a single gas burner on high or an oven set to 350 °F raised kitchen benzene concentrations above the upper range of indoor benzene concentrations attributable to secondhand tobacco smoke (0.34–0.78 ppbv) (10) and above the median indoor benzene concentration measured in the US, Canada, Western Europe, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Australia (0.78 ppbv). (47)
That’s directly from the study. So, not many. Regardless, even if true, these climate cultists are really, really trying. They don’t care about your health, they care about the Doom they think comes from natural gas.
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