The all electric home is in our future if not already

From an Article by Mary Anne Hitt, Sierra Magazine, January – February, 2021

Second, we got well on our way toward electrifying everything. Here in 2030, one of the best parts of the energy transition is that it has made our lives healthier. After social media icons spread the word about how gas stoves create indoor air pollution linked to asthma in kids, families rushed to their local home-improvement stores to replace gas ranges with electric induction stovetops.

Local governments passed thousands of ordinances calling for all-electric construction in new buildings, which created enough pressure for national standards. New businesses started popping up to help homeowners save money while pulling polluting gas appliances out of their homes. And the Department of Energy created programs to ensure that low-income families could make the switch affordably.

Meanwhile, on the transportation front, states such as California and New Jersey set a 2035 target date for phasing out internal-combustion-engine cars, and national standards followed. States also put in place standards requiring that buses and large trucks go all-electric, which dramatically reduced air pollution in communities of color and big port and shipping centers including California’s Inland Empire, New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

After COVID-19 made Americans realize the importance of walkable cities and accessible public transportation, Congress included funding in infrastructure bills for clean and affordable public transit, biking, and walking options. The number of family-sustaining jobs skyrocketed as Americans were put to work building electric cars, trucks, and buses as well as transit and charging-station infrastructure.

Part C of this Article will appear here tomorrow in FrackCheckWV.net.

The entire Article appeared in the January/February edition of Sierra with the headline “A Love Letter From the Clean Energy Future.”

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See also: FRACKING THE FUTURE — How Unconventional Gas Threatens our Water, Health and Climate, DeSmog Blog, 2011

Unconventional gas drilling and fracking are emerging as very controversial energy & environmental issues in the United States and around the World.