If Americans love anything, it’s celebrating holidays by grilling and spending time with their loved ones.
So it makes sense why the leftists at NPR would want to meddle in these traditions: They just can’t help but make everything and everyone around them miserable.
A piece published on the outlet’s website makes the case for giving up your “fossil fuel-burning” gas grills in exchange for an electric one. Why would the average American do this? In the name of “climate change,” of course.
Just before dinner recently, Stoio Kachev wheeled his electric grill across his family’s backyard patio to an electrical outlet, plugged it in and hit the power button.
“You can choose what temperature you want,” Kachev says, setting it to 500 degrees Fahrenheit on the digital display. “So you see it’s at 152 now and it’ll take about 15 minutes to get to 500.”
On the menu are two family favorites. “We are making some Bulgarian short ribs, and we’re going to make some Vietnamese pork belly,” says Doanh Nghiem. She and Kachev say convenience is the main reason they switched to an electric grill.
While the piece starts out simple enough, telling the story of two people who have given up their gas grilling ways out of convenience, it quickly dives into “key climate solutions.”
Climate change is another reason Nghiem and Kachev switched. Before the grill, the couple replaced several fossil fuel items with electric ones — first their car, then lawn mower and trimmer, a water heater and last year the grill.
Switching from a fossil fuel-burning device to an electric one — called electrification — is a key climate solution, especially as they are powered by electricity generated from an increasingly cleaner grid that uses renewable energy instead of fossil fuels.
The article quotes two CEOs who stand to gain from the increased interest in gas grills, making it sound more like a lobbying piece than one genuinely concerned about the state of the planet.
“People are skeptical because of those previous experiences where they’ve used small [electric] grills,” says Tom Penner, CEO of Current Backyard. The parent company, W.C. Bradley, also makes Charbroil grills.
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ADVERTISEMENT“Electric grills, like Kenyon’s lineup, eliminate the risks associated with open flames, making them a wildfire-safe choice for outdoor cooking,” says Mike Williams, vice president of sales and marketing for Connecticut-based Kenyon.
But back in the real world, social media users were not thrilled about the idea of being told what to do yet again by woke scolds:
We are rushing toward peak Idiocracy with people like the ones at PBS.
— Theo Philus (@Theo_Philus1776) May 26, 2025
Just stupid. Where do they think the electricity for electric grills comes from?
— Theo Philus (@Theo_Philus1776) May 26, 2025
Screw you @PBS !!!!
Make Fossil Fuels Great Again!! pic.twitter.com/DSiAf9JKie
— Deplorable Magarican (@magarican23221) May 26, 2025
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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