Literally the first sentence of their rebuttal admits it's all performative:
> Well, the risk for the environment, it's more about what gas stoves have come to represent. And that's the practice of burning natural gas in homes.
> Well, the risk for the environment, it's more about what gas stoves have come to represent. And that's the practice of burning natural gas in homes.
rayiner's comment is that NPR told him "the possibility of gas stoves being banned was fake outrage".
Whether or not gas stoves _should_ be banned is irrelevant. NPR clearly stated that they could become banned and that they don't know if they will.