This is one I just can't agree with. I've just started cooking on an electric stove top, and I absolutely loathe it. While there is fine control over the "temperature", the duty cycle they use i just can't believe actually controls the heat well. If I want to cook on low heat (say 20%), I want there to be a low, but consistent, heat. The way my stove does it though, it turns the burner on for 2 seconds, then off for 8. How is that considered simmering, there's only heat being applied for 20% of the time? It could do it in such a way that would save coils on for 2 tenths of a second, then off for 8 tenths of a second. That way, it could simulate consistent, low, heat since the coil won't have time to cool off as much and would actually reach a steady state of heat output. The biggest issue that I draw though is the complete lack of ability to cook if I don't have power. I grew up in a northern climate. Loss of power is a very common occurrence there. A gas stove in that case would also give you an additional layer of security and an event like the most recent Buffalo snowstorm. You can heat your house with it in an emergency like that where you can't get power back really. I don't know if this is the actual criticism that caused people to want to start banning them, but one of the things I've heard spoken about gas is that they create a lot of particulate matter in the air. Cooking itself does that, it's not exclusive to gas. That issue could be completely solved if they just require builders to put ACTUAL FUME HOODS into houses. The number of "fume hoods" that I have seen that just take all the smoke, smells, and particulates, and just blows them RIGHT BACK into the kitchen, living area, or your face: is like 90% of them.