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"Joe Biden wants to take your meat so you better find a hiding spot that he can't reach" https://youtu.be/eA-l6R4bKO4?si=Cq_6uzV9QIgDb3-i
Nick is a goddamn treasure and I will fight anyone who thinks different.
I'm not doing anything with it anyways, so he can have it.
I would support taking away gas stoves and replacing them with modern induction stoves, because it would reduce childhood asthma 12% and probably help a lot of people improve their air quality inside their house, reduce the incidence of gas leaks, etc.
But Biden factually does not want to do that.
I do. But Biden doesn't.
I lost electricity for almost a week last winter when it was 0F, the only way I got my house warm was boiling big pots of water, I will never get a electric stove, I simply don’t trust the grid.
Interesting that you apparently don't have a gas furnace, the much more obvious solution. Boiling water for heat is not like a cool and easy solution with no risks or downsides. Get a generator if you're worried about electric outages that bad.
Gas furnaces need an electric blower to move the heat around.
True, though I’d like to take this opportunity to point out that a gas furnace takes less power than a space heater to run, so a generator of virtually any size can run it.
I’d settle for no new gas hookups. Why are we allowing people to waste money on new infrastructure for something we just need to get rid of? You know they’ll just come whining for handouts in ten years when they realize they ve wasted their money. Why allow people to shortsightedly think they’re saving a little up front at the expense of more breathing issues later?
A lot of people getting these installed don't have the choice. My new build home (2023) has gas and I was very frustrated by this, basically every home in my area uses gas and it's not something I could opt out of since I didn't control the home as it was being built. I do plan on replacing my gas appliances basically as soon as I can reasonably afford it, but there are other amenities new homes also don't come with that I need to deal with first.
Mine is much older so gas was an excellent choice. Some of my neighborhood has oil heat which is much worse. I don’t know if mine was always gas, but I see no sign of oil
Anyhow, now that I’ve lived here 20 years, everything is coming up on replacement age. I decided “if it dies, it gets electrified”, but maybe I’m close enough
Everyone should look at the greenhouse emissions from oil refineries and power plants before they really start taking things away from individuals. We all play a part in reducing global warming. Eating less meat and using less energy and natural resources can help, of course, but let’s address the big polluters of carbon dioxide and methane. The two biggest greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide and methane. California’s biggest polluter is some refinery in Los Angeles. Is eating less meat going to put an end to that? I would hope that Biden would have a more reasonable solution than what this guy is suggesting.
It's possible to believe that both individuals and corporations have wrongdoings they are responsible for fixing. If corporations disappeared and your preferred magically ideal socioeconomic system prevailed, it would still be unsustainable if everyone were still omnivores.
I mean, yeah, eating less meat is the biggest thing an individual can do. It’s something like skipping a shower every day for a week is the same as eating a quarter pounder. And that’s just water, doesn’t even get into GHGs
No one should ever be forced to skip a shower, especially not for a week. That’s so unsanitary.
Then we shouldn’t eat burgers? Not sure what you mean
No op but I took it to mean "skipping a quarter pounder is easier and not nearly as socially damaging as skipping showers."
Whoaa hey wait, Joe, buddy, could you take away the appliances in places I'm looking at to rent? Maaaybe lower that rent comparably? I'd unga bunga my way right into some pre-2012s cost of living happily.
10,000 transfem people: "works for me"
Was waiting for someone to make this joke for 11 hours lol
Out of the loop. What did I miss?
Trans women welcome Biden taking their meat
Oh lol! Quite obvious in hindsight!
Joe Biden trying to take my dingaling 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
Where should I send it?
