Gas Stoves
topic on 2 shows · 12 statements across 4 episodes
12 statements about Gas Stoves, every show
Sam D'Amico: Gas stoves lose 60% of their energy to ambient air
“Estimated around like 60% of the energy that comes out of your gas flame heats the room, not the pot. And meanwhile, induction is like, 95% plus, depending on a bunch of different internal electrical details.”
Researcher received hate mail and abusive tweets after publishing gas stove study
“I have gotten some hate mail. I've also gotten a lot of Hate tweets and hate messages in my Twitter.”
Gas industry paid influencers to promote gas stoves over electric alternatives
“The gas industry has paid experts to testify at regulatory hearings, paid influencers to promote the use of gas stoves over electric ones, Even made corny music videos hammering the message home.”
Seals: 2013 meta-analysis linked gas stoves to 42% higher child asthma risk
“And so the last meta-analysis we have from 2013, they looked at the 41 studies that came before, and they said, based on all these results, we conclude that children living in a home with a gas stove have a 42% increased risk of having asthma.”
Gas stoves account for 12.7% of childhood asthma cases in the US
“We found that 12.7% of childhood asthma Could be attributed to gas stove use, but in some states it was much higher because, for example, in Illinois, 80% of households with children cook with gas, and so for, in that state, it was about 21%, similar in Califo…”
Gas stove asthma risk is directly comparable to secondhand smoke exposure
“So when we looked at, okay, who else has calculated this PAF, population tributal fraction, for other factors, we found that for childhood asthma, it was very similar to exposure to secondhand smoke.”
Gas stoves leak unburned methane and 21 air toxics while turned off
“They actually found there's about
200 different chemicals that are present in gas.
21 of those are air toxins like benzene, which is a known carcinogen with no safe exposure limit and so we know that gas stoves leak about one percent of the methane even while …”
CPSC and EPA raised gas stove health concerns in the mid-1980s
“And there actually are documentations going back to the mid-eighties that the CPSC and the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, were worried about the health impacts of gas stoves, and were raising the alarm bells about some of these studies about nitrogen…”
Seals: Range hoods are most effective when cooking on back burners
“And actually cooking on the back burners is where it's most effective.”
Seals: Any CPSC gas stove regulations would apply only to new stoves
“Anything that would happen from the CPSC would relate to new stoves, new regulations, new protections on new stoves.”
Lacey: Gas stoves directly contribute to 12% of childhood asthma cases
“He made the comments to Bloomberg in response to new peer-reviewed research, which builds on many studies from the last few years, showing that gas stoves are terrible for your health, and they directly contribute to 12% of childhood asthma cases.”