Los Angeles lags on building electrification.
Now is the time to ban new gas hookups
Posted By: NorthernDog, 2/16/2022 9:41:48 AM
Appliances are not as obvious polluters as power plants or diesel trucks, but the gas-fueled stoves, water heaters, furnaces and clothes dryers that predominate in California homes and businesses are a major source of health-damaging and planet-warming emissions. To avert disastrous climate change and protect people’s health, they must be replaced with electric models powered by renewable energy. Yet natural gas consumption in California homes and buildings has been rising in recent years. And because there has been a lack of leadership at the state level to electrify buildings, the effort to ban gas and change building codes has been
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since 1963 14 replies
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As columnist Jeff Jacoby put it, why not just call Clarence Thomas an Uncle Tom? This bon mot in a reported analysis about Rep. James Clyburn’s credibility doesn’t even qualify as a dog whistle. It’s as subtle as an air horn.
How did this get past an editor, even at the Washington Post?
Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.), a friend and ally of Clyburn’s for over 30 years, said even Clyburn’s critics respect his political instincts and his connection with a valuable but often disappointed subset of Democratic voters.
“Nobody that I’m aware of feels that opposing Clyburn’s nomination would be the wise thing to do,”
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Libs keep trying to ban natural gas. They'll eventually resort to enforcing at gunpoint, if allowed.