The regulator tasked with managing air quality in [California’s] South Coast basin — a massive region that crosses four counties and is home to 17 million people — voted on Friday to phase out gas-powered commercial ovens that companies like Frito-Lay and Bimbo use to pump out large quantities of chips, bread and tortillas.
It’s part of the overall trend of phasing out natural gas. And a good thing, too. Natural gas cooking and heating is more toxic, polluting, and dangerous than electric cooking and heating. It’s only a “culture war” issue because gas companies see it as a threat to their profits and gullible conservatives chug gas company propaganda like Bud Light.
I actually agree on all of that in principle. The problem I have with the headline is that it takes what’s supposedly a by the book article about a positive choice by the government and pretends that it’s another episode in one of the stupidest astroturfed causes celebre currently engaging the far right echochamber and that’s REALLY saying something!
I guarantee that a sub-editor in charge of headlines was told to bring more readers/clicks by courting controversy and proceeded to do so with all the subtlety and competence of clearing the table after dinner with a flamethrower.