Okay. So I've been having a little bit of a problem with my stove recently. Like it takes a little bit too long for it to light up. Okay, well it worked this time, that's good.

But of course now there's this big blue flame in the middle of my kitchen and once in a

while I sometimes think maybe this flame is not super great for me. And maybe I shouldn't be breathing all the things that it's like

putting in the air, but then I go on and finish cooking my eggs and try not to think about it that hard.

I have a gas stove. I use it all the time and honestly it just works for me.

There is something very satisfying about the like click

click of the igniter and then the moment when it all lights up and you are

ready to go off to the races with what you're cooking. Sometimes I even use

the open flame itself to do something like charring

the outside of a red pepper and I know that I'm not the only person with this kind of

loyalty to my gas stove.

You know, 40 million Americans have them and some are very attached.

This is Michael Corin, our climate coach here at the post, and he has been reporting on gas stoves because they've

ended up at the center of a very surprising political debate.

And this debate's been going on for a while, but it was really touched off when someone from the Consumer Product Safety Commission floated the idea of a possible ban.

It comes as mounting research links gas stoves to health risks when it comes to breathing issues.

The House voted yesterday to pass legislation that prevents the federal government from banning gas stoves.

The president does not

product safety commission which is independent is not

banning gas so just want to be very clear on that on that.

We've had these stoves for over a hundred years.

It's totally fine to get fentanyl to addicts but a gas stove is a threat to your life. a in process so that was a bit of red herring but it touched off a cultural war kind of

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