Outages (which are unlikely to be life threatening - having electric stoves doesn’t necessarily mean electric heat. I grew up with electric cooking surfaces and oil heat), how about gas explosions? Those cost lives. The most recent cases of deaths due to massive utility failures were in TX some years back, and the renewable elements of the grid actually held up better than the fossil fuel elements. I don’t think that risk you pointed out really exists.

Below is banter about “smelling toxicity”, which nobody smells in natural gas. They smell the additives designed to make the odorless, flammable, dangerous gas detectable when present. Because it’s dangerous. We’ve known that since the first uses of natural gas led to the first disasters.

So this is much more like finding alternatives to leaded gas or paint. It’s an advancement, in that we can perform the same exact functions as we did with gas, but without the risks associated with gas. I don’t agree with you about these life threatening consequences of switching off gas. But I agree that I also don’t make it my cause celeb.

But if I moved tomorrow to a place without gas stoves, my life would not be impacted one iota by that. Except that for a few cleaning service visits about 10 yrs ago I’d come home to a house stinking of natural gas additives because an inexperienced cleaner accidentally knocked a stove top dial to “on”. I wouldn’t have to worry about that. Freezing in my house during a power outage - something else I wouldn’t spend a lot of time worrying about.
[Post edited by hoolstoptheheels at 03/28/2024 10:32AM]