Troubled by proposal to ban gas appliances

We have to stop burning fossil fuels. We have no choice. Natural gas is massively polluting, and needs to go.

The fallacy of an unelected Bay Area board deciding to phase out gas heaters, furnaces and appliance in 7 years is that there is no type of always on green energy that can replace the energy from natural gas that supplies 47% of our electricity every year. Solar and wind can’t be stored and batteries are way too unaffordable and use toxic materials. There is no realistic plan for expanding the grid or how much it will cost rate payers and the state whose budget gets deeper in the red every year.

Thanks for your letter, Mr. Petterson. As long as these gas-fired power plants are not in their back yards, all-electric proponents of “green” energy don’t care how carbon-intensive their electrical power is generated from. Their virtue signaling would fall flat if they had to acknowledge that the majority of their electricity comes from fossil fuels. Meanwhile, I’d suggest folks continue suing any local and state officials pushing this idiotic ban on gas appliances. They can point towards the recent overturning of Berkeley’s ban on gas stoves as support.

Thank you Paul - we need many more readers like you to push back on the hasty, unbalanced gas ban approach pushed by the BAAQMD and some City Councils. It is as if we have nothing else to worry about but an elusive attempt to solve the climate issue if there is even one. How about traffic, inflation, crime, and housing? Those are difficult so our political class chooses to find something else to do.