Matt Bruenig, founder of People’s Policy Project and husband to Washington Post columnist Elizabeth Bruenig, recently ignited a firestorm over gas stoves, tweeting, “People who insist on using gas stoves are engaged in the same kind of culture/identity performance as people who insist on rolling coal in their giant diesel truck. You can cook food and get around fine with electricity, but that’s not what it’s about.”
Cooking with gas stoves is performative art? This guy must be clueless how electric stoves are powered. (Hint: it’s ironically mentioned in his tweet.)
Here’s why calls to ban gas stoves always fall flat.