Gas Stoves to be prohibited in New Builds - California

[Lori Goldsmith]

I’m not just a REALTOR®, I’m a gardener and an avid cook, so this news isn’t resonating with me, as I prefer gas to electric cook tops.
How about you? Which do you prefer? Thank goodness it will only apply to new builds, but is this a thumb’s up or thumb’s down for Builders/Investors? 

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Gas stoves are even worse for the climate than previously thought -- so much so that Los Angeles is banning most gas appliances in new homes and businesses. In doing so, California's largest city joins more than 50 other cities and counties in the that have made moves to discourage or prohibit the use of gas ranges. (No timeline for the new rule has been announced.)

[James Hamling]

Once upon a time, back in my trade days, I worked in the utilities sector for one of the "Big Boys" Xcel. I was in a field management position and investigative position, so I was informed very well on things of the grid because I was the idiot out there when things went "poof". 

All this EV and electric this that & the other is IDIOCY! It is now coming nothing short of a intentional disaster. I wish that was hyperbole but it isn't. 

The entire U.S.A. operates on 3 power grid systems, I kid you not. West, East and Texas (Lol, yeah that's literal too, at least 1 union member had there thinking cap on). 

Electricity is a finite resource. The ability for each grids production has certain limits. Fun fact, do you know the last time a new power production plant was built? Maybe better said to say the last decade? We are very literally MINIMUM 25 years BEHIND in production and load infrastructure, just for simple fact of population, There has been warnings of this for the last decade+, consistently falling on deaf ears. All the while more generation plants are going off-line, because they age out and current regulations prevent replacing that system. 

So now we are adding auto fuel to the draw on grid. And now pressing to swap appliances to tax it even further.......   

What most may not know is the various grid components are not easy to replace, in the manufacturing process that is. Transformers also have a finite supply. And when you tax the grid so hard, things break, a LOT more. 

There is very real scenarios that have been forecasted and "gamed-out" of a major grid brown-out, and black-out, brought about with a mid-summer extreme heat wave that presses the grid beyond the breaking point, in which we are talking weeks to restore power. I have seen these with my own eyes, the fall-out projected is scary, we are talking marshal law to contain unrest, mass casualties from the heat but then the unrest and riots. There is a tipping point where things come un-wound and all hell breaks loose. 

This is all actions as if there trying to press that potential into actuality. 

make everything electric, ok, fine, go for it, just use an ounce of intelligence and at least match added demand too added production. 

And before anyone argues solar, please do the math and figure out how many hectares of producing solar it takes to match the production of the average production plant need today, it's a lot, like bigger then some states a lot. Not to mention this little daily event called night, the electricity doesn't just hang out on the panel like snow, you have to build battery farms, massive, epic, grand insane scale battery farms, and guess what those wear out so were talking all kinds of lovely environmentally friendly things for those right (so very sarcastic). 

The whole world running on clean beautiful tree loving kitty hugging energy is a great dream, but that's all it is, a dream, reality is we suck more energy then it can produce AND it's very resource demanding to make those things, and environment damaging in and of itself. Ironically we found a more environmentally damaging way to make "clean" energy then the "dirty" energy, lol. 

So yeah, yet another horribly stupid idea that's BLATANTLY obvious to actual industry professions BUT we let popularity-professionals make decisions engineers and scientist should make, what could possibly go wrong, right....... 

And when it all goes horribly wrong they will absolutely hold themselves accountable, just like........