https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/06/how-the-fossil-fuel-industry-convinced-americans-to-love-gas-stoves/
Surveys showed that most people had no preference for gas water heaters and furnaces over electric ones. So the gas companies found a different appliance to focus on. For decades, sleek industry campaigns have portrayed gas stoves [...] as a coveted symbol of class and sophistication
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The sales pitches worked. The prevalence of gas stoves in new single-family American homes climbed from less than 30 percent during the 1970s to about 50 percent in 2019.
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Beginning in the 1990s, the industry faced a new challenge: mounting evidence that burning gas indoors can contribute to serious health problems. [...]
Cooking is the No. 1 way you’re polluting your home.
https://archive.ph/Aiyd2
You have more control over temperature on an induction cooktop than you have with a gas cooktop, but there is a learning curve. Samsung induction cooktops show a blue "virtual flame", which can help a new user visualize the amount of heat going to the pan.
Good for you. Idk what to tell you we lose power occasionally. I'm not aware of any municipality that can keep the power on when a tree snaps a power line but congrats on living somewhere thats managed to defy nature.
Either that or the storms you get aren't actually nearly as bad as the ones I, or the millions of other people that have power outages from winter storms every year, get. Sorry I can't personally maintain an entire power grid in a rural mountainous area, if that's my skill issue my bad I guess.
Again you saying "well I never lose power" isn't really a counter argument to me saying it's useful when we lose power.
Where do you live that you never lose power despite regularly experiencing major winter storms?