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@ramez
When we were pushing for electric buildings the emotional salience of gas stoves was a key way industry would attack electrification laws (“they’re trying to take away your gas stove”) - making it clear induction is fine/even better makes overall electrification more palatable.
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Confession: I just don't understand the obsession with induction cooking as a climate priority. The bulk of natural gas use, even in residential homes, is space heating and water heating. Those are the climate priorities.
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@ramez
The stove thing is more fun as an identity issue because you can see other people’s kitchens
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@bfurnas
@ramez
Right that's the other way of putting it -- nobody has an emotional connection to their gas water heater, if it meets some cost/performance standard people will just use it. But the gas stove is important to people.
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@mattyglesias
@ramez
Right - you could say “why bother fighting the strongest argument?” But defanging it lowers overall salience of the issue, and the difference between building a new building with no gas connection at all v one with a hookup (even if just for a stove) is substantial.
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@bfurnas
@mattyglesias
@ramez
^this is the answer and you’d be amazed at the opinion research on people’s affinity to their stoves.
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