I'm aware that repeatedly correcting people necessarily annoys them, and other normies who notice, and is generally not only futile but counter-productive. So I refrain sometimes, but then sometimes after doing so I decide to after all come back and add those corrections.
A gas oven won't work... as it requires power to turn on and control temperature.
Same for a gas water heater or a gas furnace. There's nothing to turn it on and control the solenoid valves.
However, a gas stove would work because all it needs is ignition and the dial controls intensity.
Ahhh... I have an newer oven/stove.
And the burners on top absolutely do work even when there's no power. I've done it many times.
And that's been the case since gas ovens/stoves were invented. Very old school gas stove tops required matches to ignite them. My grandparent's oven (ranch in Colorado) are still that way. The damn thing is from the 60's I think.
When power is out, I just have to use a lighter to get them lit because the igniter is electric.
The only thing I can think of is there's been a recent change in the last few years to prevent gas from turning on at all during a power outage. Which is definitely possible.
Fucking stupid
Having a gas stove available during an extended power outage is a major help.
Now they took that away too
Morons
Maybe it is a UK thing. You’re not called the nanny state for nothing
An old enough gas oven won't even be connected to electricity.
One younger than that will be connected to electricity, but will work without it. You will have to light it with a match or similar. Like the hobs (stove/burners) in your example.
The more modern ones, as we have covered, will either not work at all, or only the hobs (stove/burners) will work.
The existence of gas ovens, whose hobs (stove/burners) will not work without electricty, is implied in your link.
The use of 'furnace' sounds quite comical to the British ear in this context. Again I'm not trying to be offensive, but stating this kind of thing offends normies anyway. It doesn't matter how friendly and polite you are about it, or whether you say you're not trying to be offensive or not. Edit: It conjures up an image of like a glassblowing furnace or something in my mind. But we do use the same word for a torch of burning, fat-smeared rushes and an electric handheld light.
Anyway I looked it up and it's generally called a 'boiler' over here. As I said old ones will work without electricity. But I doubt there will be many people who read this who have one old enough for that.
I wouldn't exactly say there's nothing to 'turn it on' without electricity, because you could remove the panel and light it with a match, which I would argue is 'turning it on'. But as you said there are various bits in there which won't work without electricity, including a solenoid valve which will not open without electricity, allowing gas in.
By the way I used to live in a house which had actual fuse wires which would melt through when there was an overload. Instead of breaker switches. You would go to the hardware store and buy little red bits of cardboard with lengths of different thicknesses of wire wrapped around to replace them.
On another tangent a lot of people used to kill themselves in the UK by putting their heads in the oven and switching on the gas (without lighting it). This was when the gas was coal gas, which has a lot of carbon monoxide in. I expect they didn't add a nasty-smelling substance either. In the 60s/70s the supply was switched to natural gas, which would be much slower and more unpleasant to kill yourself with, and they add mercaptan to give it that unpleasant smell. So you don't hear about people gassing themselves in their ovens any more.
They're not stupid, they're evil. You are the foolish one, for thinking they're stupid. They want to reduce us to subhuman slaves with all our appliances under their monitoring and remote control.
