Do you really believe it's more likely that gas companies are paying people to say they want a gas stove on HN than someone genuinely believing it? I've met some many normal people in real life that say the same thing about gas stoves, including family members that have nothing to do with any Big Gas plots.
Could you elaborate a bit on this. There seems to be a genuine group of people who are against burning fossil fuels. Burning natural gas causes health issues in cities, create water pollution that kills lakes, rivers, and ocean, and it causes global warming. Fossil fuels are also a major contributing to geopolitical instability in Europe, with all the recent wars having major aspects of fossil fuel politics in them.
It sucks for individuals that removing fossil fuels in Europe will have a negative impacts economically in the short term until either nuclear or alternative solutions can replace existing fossil fueled infrastructure. Replacing existing infrastructure is always costly, and core infrastructure is even more expensive. That said, the current wars and current problems from fossil fuels also cost a lot of money. The longer we wait on upgrading existing infrastructure the more it will cost in the long term.
I guess the internet might be a more interesting place if everything you read goes through the lens of a conspiracy theory, so who am I to tell you that these are likely just people with different opinions to you. I don't know either obviously, but I choose to live life using a different lens than that. Maybe I'm wrong and naive but feels more relaxed!
I'm sure it is more relaxed. I remember when conspiracy theories were kinda fun but mostly harmless BS.
That was before the last 7-10 years, where government and media played whack-a-mole with emerging information, dismissing everything as conspiracy theory or misinformation.
And it worked ... for a while.
Problem is, now there's a record, a significant recent history of these things that were described as such for months and years until it was no longer tenable to deny and deflect.
Meanwhile, we've seen exactly how organized and cynical the "misinformation" campaigns run by NGOs and other stakeholder groups can be.
Yeah I get it, I just decided to care little about what I read online and give it as much credence as if I overhear a random conversation in a café. Even if they're doing some psyop its not like I'd change my life based on random hearsay. Thanks for the replies, it was easy to be defensive and I was really curious. Have a great holiday season!
I assure you that I am just a normal software engineer that happens to live in South Carolina. This is a matter of practicality for me. If induction became more practical for my family, I would make the switch. The incentives just don’t add up yet where I live.
