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Gas appliances’ days are numbered in California
(www.politico.com)
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Judging by the blurb, the headline is highly misleading culture war bait.
It's one hell of a stretch to call industrial ovens "appliances"
Also, does Bimbo have some alternative meaning in Spanish or were the ones who named that company just a bunch of weirdos? 🤔
It has no meaning in Spanish, and comes from combining "Bingo" and "Bambi". Source
I actually used to live where they're headquartered, a fact I learned only after moving away and reading the back of a bread package.
It's the masculine word for kid, child, in Italian
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.
I actually agree on all of that in principle. The problem I have with the headline is that it takes what's supposedly a by the book article about a positive choice by the government and pretends that it's another episode in one of the stupidest astroturfed causes celebre currently engaging the far right echochamber and that's REALLY saying something!
I guarantee that a sub-editor in charge of headlines was told to bring more readers/clicks by courting controversy and proceeded to do so with all the subtlety and competence of clearing the table after dinner with a flamethrower.