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On Friday, February 24, 2017 at 8:46:13 AM UTC-10, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 22:57:45 -0800 (PST), dsi1 <dsi10yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> >On Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 7:56:56 PM UTC-10, sf wrote:
> >> On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 22:21:29 -0800 (PST), dsi1 <dsi1yahoo.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Monday, February 20, 2017 at 5:24:41 PM UTC-10, sf wrote:
> >> > > On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 14:15:01 -0800 (PST), dsi1 <dsiyahoo.com>
> >> > > wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > > The good thing about gas is that it can warm up a cold kitchen and it's cheap. That's about it.
> >> > >
> >> > > Agree!
> >> >
> >> > If I lived in the Pacific Northwest, a gas stove might be an attractive option. Beats the heck out of me why people think gas is faster than electric. The gas stoves that I've seen were just too wimpy for me.
> >>
> >> The see the flame, so it's fast. Their mother, grandmother and every
> >> other person they knew cooked with gas, so of courses it's best.

> >
> >If anybody ever thought about it, they'd realize that a God awful amount of fuel is
> >being wasted heating up the cook and the kitchen.

>
> Electric production is extremely wasteful of resources and a good
> percentage of electric is lost in its transmission, not to mention
> erecting and maintaining the grid... all those step up and step down
> transformers waste more energy than people on the grid use. Electric
> is efficient for lighting, even a lot more so with the advent of LEDs,
> but for cooking electric is extremely wasteful, there's tremendous
> waste before it gets to your electric meter, that's why electric bills
> are so high, the consumer pays for all that waste before they see
> their first watt, that's why there's a minimum bill even when you use
> nothing.
> Now if someone invents LED cooking and LED transportation then you've
> got something... imagine Light Emitting Diesel semis hauling freight
> and people.
> There's absolutely nothing resourceful about induction cooking, all it
> does is separate the pinheads from their pesos.


No doubt you believe that propane comes out of the ground naturally and there's no associated costs with processing, transportation, and storage. Your propane tank was guided into its present resting place by a trio of angels as a gift from God. You're able to burn gas with 100% efficiency while the rest of us schlubs have to settle with wasting almost half of it to heat up the room. Truly you are the superior one!