On their way out?

FYI, I have an electric, next one will be induction.

Standby generators powered by natural gas are becoming increasingly common in our area. Lots of my neighbors have them. They are definitely a luxury but come in very handy when the power goes out, especially in the middle of winter.

Any place that considers mandating all-electric better have a damn robust power grid in place before they pull the plug on natural or propane gas....

You're years ahead with an all electric gold medallion home!

I grew up in a Gold Medallion home.

This is probably the basis for my deep distrust of gas stoves. I have a very fancy one now. It's hard to clean and it scares me and the only thing that I can see that it does better than electric is cook popcorn, but I'm too cheap to rip it out and install the smoothtop electric cooktop that I would prefer. And Quirt wouldn't like it anyway, so there's that.

And so I persevere, cooking over an open flame as if we haven't progressed since Prometheus gave up his liver for us.

Hey! I’d be willing to go all induction!

I have a small single burner induction unit that I use most often. It seems to burn things onto the bottom of a pan more frequently than the gas stove, I think that’s because the entire heat source is from the bottom. But it’s faster (a lot faster), so it’s my heating unit of preference. If we had to go all induction, there are one or two pots we have that wouldn’t work (too small or aluminum). But I think you can solve that with a metal disk under the pot, maybe.

For one of my married friends, the first major drag-out fight they’d ever had was over the height to hang a picture. For us, it’ll be an electric vs. other kind of stovetop.

I much prefer the control of a gas range top.

I'm fine with an electric oven.

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Standby generators powered by natural gas are becoming increasingly common in our area.

Got one of those after a hurricane left us out of power for two weeks.

Our house is primarily natural gas powered. It was offered as the clean fuel back then.

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“It’s a significant quantity of climate pollution, and a really important area to tackle if we want to hit the goals that we have to reduce climate-change pollution,” said Danny Katz, executive director of the environmental and community advocacy group CoPIRG.

I'd like to see something more precise than 'significant' before upending a lot of folks' appliance picture. Heat pumps are not particularly effective even in Ohio. I suspect they are worse in many parts of Colorado.

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Originally posted by Mikhailoh:
I'd like to see something more precise than 'significant' before upending a lot of folks' appliance picture. Heat pumps are not particularly effective even in Ohio. I suspect they are worse in many parts of Colorado.

"Gold Medallion" homes didn't have heatpumps. They used either resistance heat ($$$) or drywall with heat tape embedded in it (also $$$ and it all failed fairly quickly).

I would never live in an all electric house. Very expensive to heat. And a gas range is a necessity. We'll be converting both our hot water heater and our range to gas.

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Originally posted by piqué:
I would never live in an all electric house. Very expensive to heat. And a gas range is a necessity. We'll be converting both our hot water heater and our range to gas.

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Originally posted by Mikhailoh:

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Originally posted by piqué:
I would never live in an all electric house. Very expensive to heat. And a gas range is a necessity. We'll be converting both our hot water heater and our range to gas.

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Originally posted by Mikhailoh:
I'd like to see something more precise than 'significant' before upending a lot of folks' appliance picture. Heat pumps are not particularly effective even in Ohio. I suspect they are worse in many parts of Colorado.

"Gold Medallion" homes didn't have heatpumps. They used either resistance heat ($$$) or drywall with heat tape embedded in it (also $$$ and it all failed fairly quickly).

Our all-electric house, built in 1963, had a heat pump. It surely worked better in the winter in Mississippi than it did in Ohio, and it cooled through those long, hot summers.

My parents' electric bills were ridiculously low. I think my mother was still paying $50 a month in the early Aughts. That heat pump was probably pretty efficient, and she didn't cool her house overmuch, but it was a reasonable temperature--maybe 72. The design--deep porches on the north and south sides and not a lot of western exposure--probably kept the cooling bills down. There were other marginal cost savings, in that modern houses have more light bulbs--can lights and multi-bulb chandeliers and such--and that probably adds up, but it was a good-sized comfortable home.

Still, even given all that, I have often thought that there was some clerical error and that she paid the 1963 all-electric cheap rate for the forty years she lived in that house.

I love stovetop cooking with gas, but don't like it for ovens.

I think we only use gas for the stove here at Chez Nina, and for a "wooden stove" that's actually run by gas in the basement that we never use--though when we tested it out it does put out a LOT of heat.

What earns the Greta Thunberg Disapproval in my book are gas fireplaces and firepits, especially when they're just turned on to give the place a particular look (I'm thinking restaurants, etc.)

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Originally posted by Mary Anna:
Our all-electric house, built in 1963, had a heat pump.

Interesting. I didn't know anyone used them that far back. From what I can find on the 'net, they became popular after the oil embargo in the 70's.