The regulator tasked with managing air quality in [California’s] South Coast basin — a massive region that crosses four counties and is home to 17 million people — voted on Friday to phase out gas-powered commercial ovens that companies like Frito-Lay and Bimbo use to pump out large quantities of chips, bread and tortillas.
It’s part of the overall trend of phasing out natural gas. And a good thing, too. Natural gas cooking and heating is more toxic, polluting, and dangerous than electric cooking and heating. It’s only a “culture war” issue because gas companies see it as a threat to their profits and gullible conservatives chug gas company propaganda like Bud Light.