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Gas appliances’ days are numbered in California (www.politico.com)
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's the masculine word for kid, child, in Italian

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.