FOR YEARS, A PR CONFLICT RAGED in this country, pitting electric appliances against natural gas stoves and heaters. The gas industry usually emerged victorious, successfully convincing the public that electric heaters are ineffective and will send your utility bills skyrocketing. Besides, according to the industry, a “real chef” never uses anything but gas for cooking — because it affords temperature control, keeps working during blackouts and, well, because “flame equals flavor,” or so the saying goes.
So it shouldn’t have come as a surprise that right-wing politicians and pundits went ballistic when scientists and regulators said it was time to ditch natural gas and go electric for the sake of human and climate
