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It’s Time To Break Up With Our Gas Stoves | Climate Town
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oh boy do i love my guests
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oh boy do i love slopping
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together a big wet lunch on my gas stove
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hashtag cooking with gas
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and posted sorry i just had to do a quick instagram
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post about just the vague concept of the gas stove a very real thing
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the natural gas lobby is quietly
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paying influencers to do not to advertise
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a specific brand of gas stove or gas utility
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just to remind us that we love gas
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and if anyone should i don't know try to get us to stop using
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gas for any reason then it's a war on dear sweet gas
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and we can't let that happen to gas gas has always been there for
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us gas was there when our girlfriends broke up with us okay guess it's
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only been nice to us i love gas
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i love you guys
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and if it feels like the natural gas industry paying kids to post pro
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gas messages has big let's get out in front of this energy
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you nailed it because natural gas like coal and oil
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is a fossil fuel and as countless studies and climate scientists
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and all the fossil fuel companies
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themselves have noted burning fossil fuels releases greenhouse
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gases which heat up the planet and cause things like increased
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fires and floods and droughts and a whole bunch of climate change etc
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that devastate families and ruin lives
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now gas utilities don't
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like climate change but they really don't like losing even the tiniest bit of
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money so they've decided to make one final desperate stand at the gas stove
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despite the fact that they know it's worse for their customers
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our cities and just the whole planet
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hi i'm raleigh williams
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unconventionally unattractive and a climate science and policy master's degree
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recipient and i'm here to tell you that it might be time for us
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to break up with our gas stoves despite what you may have seen on
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instagram welcome to climatetown
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one thing to know about the natural gas industry
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is that it's got a long and proud tradition of absolutely
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bat-shit at washington advertisements gas
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oh when i discovered electricity
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i never meant for people to heat their homes with it
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gas advertisements finally answer the question what if we just never said no to
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any idea they are all over the place but a few center around some
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common themes such as natural gas will make you attractive to your wife again
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barry here buddy electricity
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both doesn't work and does work but is way too expensive
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natural gas is clean
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and some variation on the electric utility company hates you and wants you to
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shower with this racist depiction of an asian man
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don't call public service company but please
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brace yourself for my personal
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wrapping with gas cooking with gas
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cooking with gas we all cook better when we're cooking with gas
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gas is so hot it's not on when it's not it's the only way
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to were taught cook that song is over four minutes long and despite the fact
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that they repeat the hook cooking with gas cooking with gas cooking with gas
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cooking with gas 36
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times they titled the song
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wrapping with gas but that's just because
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you know that song was written from the top of a pile of cocaine
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and after the five minutes it took to write that song they had already
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forgotten what they and that hook
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cooking with gas has been an industry standby since the 1930s
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when gas pr guy d colgate
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pitched it to bob hope's writers
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then it became a radio
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catchphrase and my god what an old sounding sentence that is that is the
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kind of sentence that like
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knows everybody at the grocery store and wants to introduce you to the lady
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who works in the bread department when you come home to visit who's single
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by the way yeah well she's also like 45
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by the way i mean
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old sounding sentence yeah unsalted
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cold barely cooked eggs from four hours ago
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now that is hollywood
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okay hollywood isn't all about glamorous
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20 to 30 egg breakfasts
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there's a lot going on in the edit bay behind the scenes
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speaking of behind the scenes isn't it weird that natural gas advertisements
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are almost all focused on the gas stove
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despite the fact that the gas stove represents
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just three percent of residential
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natural gas sales according to the energy information
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administration 26 of natural gas sales come from water heating and an astounding
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69 of natural gas sales come from space heating
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so why is such a huge fraction of the natural gas marketing budget
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aimed at such a small fraction of the gas sales
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well it's probably because all the natural gas you use in your home comes
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in through the same pipe and if you or the apartment complex you live
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in decides to invest in the gas infrastructure
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for gas stoves it's a much easier jump to the real gas heating money
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makers it's like how costco
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sells whole rotisserie chickens for five dollars they're not making their money on the
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five dollar chicken they're using the five dollar chicken to get you in the
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door and then they make their real money when you impulse buy a drone on
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your way out and i kind of lost the thread but i think in
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this metaphor a gas furnace
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is the drone or a water boiler is the drug
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whatever i'm sure this part will be cut in the front and for about
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70-ish years the natural gas industry tried to hammer home this concept that gas
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was cleaner and cheaper and faster
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and electric stoves and heaters were slower and inefficient
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and the property of communist
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china and for a while they were not entirely
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wrong i can't speak to the communist china stuff but calling natural gas the
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clean burning alternative to electric
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used to be pretty accurate because electricity
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used to be mainly powered by coal fire power plants which are directly linked
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to asthma cancer and heart and lung disease
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you know real day ruiners
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and that's where the fact that we live in the 2020s
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actually makes a difference i'll pick that up later you see gas isn't actually
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cleaner or cheaper or better anymore
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there's a lot of ways to define cleaner and gas loses to electric
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in like every category
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take your personal health for example
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a gas stove might look pretty clean but this is a literal open flame
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in your kitchen gas stoves can lead to carbon monoxide
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levels three to six times higher than electric ranges
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gas stoves also produce double the harmful particulate
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matter and the elevated nitrogen dioxide
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levels associated with gas stoves can affect the mental and respiratory
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development of children in 1986
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when the epa's clean air scientific
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advisory committee found some troubling evidence
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that elevated nitrogen dioxide
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levels were having some pretty negative impacts on children
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the gas industry had this to say well it's three times less in the
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east or west so remember those figures when it's time to take a test
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and since the clean air act of 1970
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doesn't have jurisdiction over private residences
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the gas industry wasn't legally obligated
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to disclose the dangers of these chemicals
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to the people who were you know breathing them in every day and yeah
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a lot of the early model electric
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sucked it was basically like the dial-up
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internet of cooking and ladies
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here's a tip for you
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when you go shopping for your ranges
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take your husbands along
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they know real values
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but luckily just like the internet
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electric cooking has gotten
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super goddamn good new electric stove technology
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is called induction we're supposed to be in a nike there we go okay
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new electric cooking technology
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is called induction it's a big upgrade from gas and it uses
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get this magnets water
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fire air and dirt
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magnets how do they work
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wow look i know that song came out after 9 11 but it feels
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very pre-911 does that make sense
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whatever induction magnets work by creating an alternating
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magnetic current that heats the metal directly
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in the pan instead of the cooktop
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which allows it to cook things twice as fast with literally
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twice the precision also and this is a bonus
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it doesn't cook the absolute
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out of everything around it on the grill
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hey we got kicked out apparently you're not supposed to lean on other stuff
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or film without their permission
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i totally understand it and for the record
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i do not have an induction burner myself
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i rent an apartment from a man i've never met who responds to less
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than 25 of my emails i do not have an induction
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burner okay i'm not trying to sit here and tell you you're a bad
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person if you cook on gas
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you're not a bad person
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actually i don't know you maybe you are a bad person that is between
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you and our lord and savior jesus
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christ that is the loudest truck i've ever heard the point is induction
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is not some kind of fad like chia pets or television
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okay it is here to stay
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even professional chefs like michelle roode jr are switching to induction all the sauce
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is getting ready for lunch
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and what's great about the induction is there's no heat it's lovely it's a
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great environment to be working in even commercial
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pizza ovens that have to get
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way hotter than your oven at home are moving to all electric
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now unfortunately we couldn't afford to shoot in one of those pizza places
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psych location change baby we got a patreon
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page now where people pay like
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five bucks a month and the link is in the bio and now we
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can go inside of places without getting kicked out after 20 minutes
9:16
one of those insides
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is lorasi pizza in brooklyn new york where they have
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among other things an all-electric
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pizza oven that gets
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super hot how hot does this oven get
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950 degrees that's so
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hot but we're gonna cook myself
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a little and here's a slice of pizza
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and it's fantastic i mean if it wasn't fantastic would i be able to
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cram this entire slice in my mouth at once
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but i wouldn't but look
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i get it maybe you just prefer cooking with gas
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all right maybe you're willing to take the risk for the advantage of a
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flame fine totally understandable
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and it's actually a fairly popular
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opinion and we know this because the gas industry knows this because when they
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realized they couldn't compete with electricity
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in terms of health
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or quality they had to find a way to appeal the people's emotional
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attachment to their product
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so the american public gas association
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an industry group representing
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over 700 gas utilities
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hired the hot shot pr company porter novelli to figure out how to manipulate
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people's emotions enough to keep them using gas while porter and novelli did the
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research and they found out that people don't give a about whether their water
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boiler is gas or electric
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and people don't give a about whether their heater is gas or electric
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but people do give a about their gas stove and that's the ticket baby
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if we can get enough people to keep buying gas we can prolong
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the gas transition into electric
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until you know what we don't need an end game when we got cocaine
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howdy partners this is no ordinary house this is a home on the main
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the nashville gas main
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who was that gas man
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and as much fun as those peruvian
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schniff powder fueled ads used to be people see right through that kind of
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thing now so the gas industry had to find some new way to re-incept
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the idea of we love gas into the minds of people
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as soon as possible
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and dang it if they didn't use up all their best lines and that
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wrapping with gas song cooking
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it's cleaner clean the flame consumes the smoking grease you know what i mean
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the flame consumes the smoke and grease you know what i'm no i don't
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know what you mean are you talking about a grease fire
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are you bragging about having a grease fire
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whatever porter novelli had a different
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influencers but you don't have to take my word for it here's a very
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real page from the porter novelli proposal they wrote for the american public gas
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association showing their target audiences of hispanic
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millennials design enthusiasts promising
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families and young city solos
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each one is paired to a season and each combination
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makes exactly zero sense but hey it wouldn't be much of a gas ad
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if it made any sense now would it
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and as fast as you could say hispanic
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millennials represent the winter
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the american public gas association
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spent 300 000 on a pr campaign
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that got small market influencers
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to make posts like this and would you look at that it's all stoves
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that thing that makes them just three percent of their money so weird i
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noticed something else here they're no longer making the claim that it's cleaner
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because it isn't and they no longer claim it's cheaper
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because it's not now the big selling point is that natural gas is
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faster which is true if you're only counting traditional
12:39
electric coils and not the much faster
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induction cooktops but the real question is why are they spending
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hundreds of thousands of dollars on a campaign that doesn't even mention an actual
12:49
brand or a way for people to buy their product
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and sure paying influencers
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to post about how precisely
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they can cook a taco
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doesn't seem that bad
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what they're actually doing is paying influencers
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to trick their into helping the gas company avoid climate legislation
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oh yeah it's all about climate change with me that's my whole thing that's
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my entire deal i am insufferable
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to be around nowadays
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okay we get it you're self-deprecating
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this guy oh and another edit bay bit
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you can't just dump to an edit bay every time you forget to write
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a joke ugh this guy
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and since i'm not a hack like some people i know let's go ahead
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and bring this burden of proof train into the station with a nice gas
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industry internal document smoking gun style
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this is the 2018
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speak up for natural gas advocacy
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training workshop document link in the bio sponsored by three of the biggest gas
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trade organizations in america
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and in this document they detail their plans to ask their employees to spread
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pro-gas messages and stories on social media
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which in my opinion
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is a pretty whack-ass
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thing for a boss to ask their employees to do they discuss how local
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citizens and advocates might not want natural gas extracted from their home towns or
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pipelines built right through their backyards
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and how gas employees
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promoting gas can sometimes be enough to change the narrative
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they go over best practices for storytelling
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how to control the narrative
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and their big smoking
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conclusion in a document
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about which pro-gas arguments they should use is right here
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emotional arguments can shape the public narrative
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even when the facts don't support
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them emotional arguments can shape the public narrative
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even when the facts
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don't support them whoo
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now they claim they're learning this tactic from the pro-environmental
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movement but they go on to detail a whole bunch of other ways they
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can do it and they conclude the document with this
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it all boils down to how the natural gas industry chooses to tell its
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story so porter novelli takes care of the influencers
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and then the gas industry
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asks its own employees
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to jump on social media
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and spread a bunch of pro-gas
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disinformation wait i'm sorry that should be
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correcting misinformation and speaking of correcting
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misinformation hey here's a fun cool climate change fact you can tell your friends
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natural gas is as big of a driver of climate change as coal and
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i know that might sound weird because common knowledge says coal is much dirtier
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burning the natural gas and in a lot of ways it is burning coal
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releases all sorts of compounds
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that have certain health and environmental
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implications but in terms of just climate change causing greenhouse gases
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the math is not good for natural gas the u.s energy information administration
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says gas emits almost 50 percent less co2
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than coal or half of one pizza
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but natural gas is primarily
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composed of methane which is itself a greenhouse gas with 80
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times the potency of carbon dioxide
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over a 20-year period
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and that's where fugitive
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emissions come into play you can think of fugitive emissions like when a chemical
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escapes the supply chain before being turned into heat or energy
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when a lump of coal falls off a truck on the way to a
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power plant it just becomes a rock
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or like some lonely kid's best friend in a depressing
16:01
kids book who still make those
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if they do i feel like my friend cole would do
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harry potter numbers but the thing is when natural gas leaks out of one
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of the 2 million miles of pipes and gas lines that transport natural gas
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around america and gets into the air it becomes an ultra potent greenhouse
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gas in the atmosphere
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so if we're doing the math it turns out we can afford to lose
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about four percent of natural gas through leaks before we're actually heating the planet
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more than the coal it was supposed to be displacing
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and guess what percent we actually
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lose it's like nine
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here it is in pizza slices
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now i'm not suggesting
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we should go back to coal
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i'm suggesting we should haul ass towards electrification
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via renewables and battery technology
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even if we electrified
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every building overnight it wouldn't cut natural gas out of the equation natural gas
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is still used as like one of the main fuel sources
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to generate electricity but the reductions
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in emissions and fugitive emissions we would see from not having to pipe fossil
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fuels into 70 million buildings in america
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would represent an enormous
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reduction in our overall emissions
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today buildings are generating about 30
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of all of america's
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emissions via direct combustion of fossil fuels
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and fossil fuels in the electricity
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and we have all the technology
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we need to greatly reduce those emissions already
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but that would mean the gas industry couldn't sell gas outside of power plants
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and that's going to be a big note from the gas industry dog so
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in the past few years cities have begun to realize that climate change
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is a big problem
17:39
and that fossil fuel powered buildings aren't going to cut it anymore so they
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began passing laws to remove gas from new buildings
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while a lot of comprehensive
17:46
climate policy needs to come from a national
17:48
level like putting a price on carbon pollution or adopting a federal clean energy
17:52
standard city governments get to write their own building codes which led to 50
17:56
cities in california implementing this no new gas buildings policy
18:00
pretty quickly but then the craziest
18:02
thing happened gas lobby groups went around to states with republican-controlled
18:06
legislatures and worked with them to quietly
18:09
pass legislation that made gas utilities
18:12
exempt from city regulation
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they're called preemption laws and they call them that because of the way they
18:17
preemptively let gas lobby groups do whatever the they want and they passed them
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so quietly that when tucson arizona tried to pass a no new gas buildings
18:26
law they discovered they legally
18:28
couldn't because state republicans
18:29
had just adopted a statewide
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gas exemption which you know feels pretty ironic
18:35
for a political party whose whole thing is that they're against government overreach
18:39
wouldn't you say texas then passed their own preemption law then oklahoma
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and now a total of 20 state legislatures
18:46
passed preemption laws to protect the precious gas industry from cities who want to
18:50
set their own building codes
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and so here we are when the gas industry had to choose between destroying
18:56
the environment for you and your children or taking a financial hit they picked
19:00
the money and they enlisted the help of a few gullible influencers
19:03
morally bankrupt politicians and even made their own employees
19:07
post on facebook about it and so far it's working for them so if
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you're sitting there or standing there or even leaning there and you want to
19:15
know how you can get involved there's a couple things you can do
19:18
first and most importantly
19:20
you can support these building electrification
19:22
advocacy groups using the links in the bio you can also call your local
19:25
representatives and let them know you are very pro building electrification
19:29
or if you live in one of these 20 states
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you can call them up and let them know that you think preemption
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laws are some serious
19:36
if you happen to be in a place in your life where you can
19:39
opt out of gas stoves consider getting an induction burner but the real name
19:43
of the game here is collective action
19:45
get out there join those groups
19:47
and make some friends or at the very least just make it a point
19:50
to get more educated
19:51
about the climate crisis
19:53
because when enough informed climate advocates get together
19:56
oh boy then we will really be cooking with you
20:00
cooking with electric take it away elton
20:10
thank you so much for watching i can tell this one is going to
20:12
get away from me it's going to be like 22 minutes long or something
20:15
psychotic like that and i really appreciate you sticking all the way to the
20:18
end i got a patreon
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page it's got about like 1300-ish
20:22
patrons right now um
20:24
it really helps to make these videos you know like being able to go
20:27
places and get on trains and buy pizzas and that kind of thing if
20:30
you're watching right now and you're like i'm not donating that's totally fine
20:34
i'll still make the videos no worries
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if you are interested
20:37
in helping me out i'm going to do an incentive thing here where uh
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if we hit 1600
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patrons by the end of the year
20:46
of our lord 2021
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i will produce like a good version of this with better lyrics that are
20:51
factually accurate see it might not be worth it honestly
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and i get that and so don't worry about it but if you
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want that then join the patreon page
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okay thank you so much i'll see you next time i have not
21:04
tried marijuana i have never used it at any time
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