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.
I also find that claim really odd. Electric stoves are pretty much unbreakable, at least the simple ones are.
Now if we are talking about washing machines or dishwashers…
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.
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.
Is it crazy to think people might cook everyday? Eating everyday? In this economy?
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.
Doesn’t that beg the question…why aren’t l we forcing this upon restaurants and fast food where it will make the greatest impact?
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You’re conflating two things:
- Most stoves are installed at home, and designed for ordinary at-home use
- A standard for the efficiency of new stoves manufactured 2028 and later
That’s just sealioning.
Some conservative ghoul, like Clarence Thomas:
This is why the administrative state needs to go.
Wow my uh, preview image is rather explicit. I don’t even surf pork on Lemmy, the hell?
Lemmy and the Washington Post tend to interact really badly. It’s an ongoing problem.
I read an article about stove top gas regulations for nothing.
I recommend cooking breakfast the morning after.
Jesus Christ hahaha glad I wasn’t browsing at work!
Same. I am aware that KBin has some occasional issues with wrong thumbnails, but this one is absolutely hilarious.
@ernest ?
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”.
A few years ago, my electric bill jumped from about $100/month to over $350. I called the local utilities commission and they told me that they could come out and do a “survey” of my appliances but if their guy determined that the bill was my fault, I’d have to pay $100 as a “service call.”
The guy essentially walked into my house and just pointed at every appliance and said what it was, told me that my refrigerator was the culprit, then handed me a bill for $100.
This utilities commission is still adding $20 a month to people’s electric bill for a “solar research” charge and they’ve not made a single investment into solar in the 20 years that they started adding that fee. They still burn diesel to generate power.
Edit: My point is, electricity could certainly be less of an expense, but because it’s treated as a commodity instead of a necessity, power companies know they can price gauge.
We’re going to get low-flow burners, aren’t we?
So what you’re saying is that your big turd needs a big flush… Fueled by a big stove?
God help us
No… Or, really I have no idea what you’re saying. I was just making a joke about low-flow shower heads.
