Americans just can’t seem to be able to own anything and enjoy their holidays in peace without some pretentious snobs in leftist media lecturing them to be "climate-friendly."
As Americans were gearing up for the Memorial Day festivities, taxpayer-funded NPR decided to have a beef with how they cook their meat in a May 23 piece of climate babble.
"Electric grills are a climate-friendly option to fossil fuel grills," read the didactic propaganda from NPR Climate Desk correspondent Jeff Brady. “Summer grilling usually starts with filling a propane tank or buying a bag of charcoal briquettes. But some people are ditching these fuels for a more climate-friendly electric grill,” he bleated.
Brady proceeded to cherry-pick random people who picked using electric grills in part due to climate change so he could then pontificate to the gas-guzzlers. “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,” Brady snorted.
Data from Statista clearly show why Brady choosing to go off on a tangent about how fossil fuel-powered grills are somehow killing the planet is downright pathetic. Research published September 2024 found that just a meaningless ten percent of grill owners in the United States owned electric grills as of 2020, while a sizable majority (61 percent) owned gas grills and 49 percent owned charcoal grills (obviously some have more than one type). But Brady tried to make it seem like the electric grill industry is taking the cooking world by storm: “Kenyon says its electric grill sales have increased more than 40% in the past three years. Current Backyard doesn't disclose sales, but the company is expanding its line with an electric griddle and pizza oven.”
What’s even worse is that Brady even had to admit he initially got his facts wrong in a “correction” note published the same day: “This story has been updated to reflect the fact that charcoal briquettes are not a fossil fuel.”
Brady should also update his professional biography for that matter to reflect that he’s really just a climate propagandist masquerading around as a real news journalist.
Remind us why NPR needs our tax dollars again?
