Gas Stoves

My wife and I lived in many places prior to building our retirement home. We lived in different environments from New York to Virginia to Kentucky to Kansas to Florida to Washington State and other places. In all those places we were lucky to experience all electric houses and natural gas houses (heating and stove). We found that the most efficient were the houses that had gas furnaces and stoves.

So, when we built our retirement home we went with natural gas heat, hot water heater, and stove. That was 25 years ago and we didn’t have zealots telling us the sky is falling. Natural gas was cheaper than electricity at the time. We are pleased with our decision.

Now there is a movement in our state to ban ALL natural gas. There are crazies that believe that our stove will kill us all. Huh?

If this passes my wife’s and my retirement will be ruined. This will crush us – an old retired couple on fixed incomes. Or we stop cooking, bathing, and being warm in the winter.

I did a little research and it will cost between $40,000 and $50,000 to convert all our appliances to electricity. You see you just don’t install new appliances. New electric lines have to be run and outlets installed. Junction boxes have to be updated. Gas pipes must be removed or at least capped off. And the new appliances installed (I’m an old guy).

Yet, no one seems to get this. Their narrow minded zealotry prevents them form seeing all the economic impacts to real people. Must be nice to not care about others. And I don’t even want to bring up that this with the craze for electric vehicles may over tax the electric grid. I remember a Christmas eve when we endured rolling brown outs in one of the houses we lived in was all electric because natural gas was unavailable in that part of the country.

Sooner or later someone has to start thinking through issues. All the way through. Besides, according to the crazies we are all dead due to climate change in about 6 years anyway. And I don’t think you can change the entire world’s climate in 6 years. But then I’m and old guy and I don’t get it.