When rereading the first post it isn't entirely clear it was a parody. But sarcasm is difficult to bring across online. That's why the
/s is a useful addition.
Like
@Trell has already mentioned, nobody is coming to take people's old, inefficient, devices. At some point new ones will simply not be made anymore (
probably because of efficiency laws) and our family will probably donate half your stuff to goodwill for free because they don't want it.
I'm all for laws banning inefficient designs. Or make exemptions for the few that are around as more of a collector's item. Like most countries do with vintage cars.
I love my 10.5 inch reel to reel machine. But I don't listen to music on it all that often because it is not that practical if you switch music a lot. Still very cool to have around.
With regard to gas stovetops, new homes in the Netherlands don't even get a gas connection anymore and you will have to pay for all the infrastructure if you really, really need it. A home with just gas stoves would be a negative for me. It's a bit like moving into a place and finding a wood or coal burning stovetop for cooking. Cool to look at, but not very practical.
They have to make money somehow once DeSantis runs their biggest employer and tourist attraction out of the state (Disney) for giving him the finger on his anti-trans bullshit. Why not sell off all the old people? Nobody wants zombie bog people.
Again, they won't be tearing down housing for being too old-school. It's just that new ones won't be built at some point.
But there will be constraints on the supply of energy because the planet has a limit it can safely provide before society will collapse. Either you learn to limit your energy usage by replacing inefficient designs with newer ones when they fail or you will get to a point when it just isn't there anymore.
The whole idea that places like Texas have rolling blackouts in both winter and summer because the grid cannot provide is insane to me. That's not something that should be possible in a developed nation. Even brownouts is a sign of either bad infrastructure or people using too much. And it is probably both.
And if you really want to be bothered by old stuff being torn down just take a look at the many, many historic buildings in the US that were torn down to make room for parking lots for cars that would never come.
That's easy, have you seen how many people
absolutely suck at barbequing? Too much smoke. Burnt meat. Food poisoning?
Make it a professionals only thing. Follow a BBQ education. Get certified.
Rake offenders over the coals!