Banning Gas appliances, easier said than done ...

[dogtag]

I wonder if this bunch of loonies has really considered exactly
what this plan would entail regarding; Cost. For starters.
Who's going to pay for:
Cost of new electric appliances (oven and range plus heat system)
Cost to rewire house (running two 30 amps to kitchen)
Possible cost to install new service entrance panel for 200 amps.
You can figure new appliances will not fit in the present openings.
If this lot tries to saddle the homeowners with these very expensive
costs, then I would expect all hell to break loose. AND:
Are these wokers planning on supplying the needed electricity via solar
and windmills ? If so then what happens when the Sun goes down,
the wind stops and the whole state switches on their range and oven
in order to cook dinner ?

[Allen]

The cost will be passed on to the consumers.

Nat gas and propane will be taxed more (and big oil blamed for it).

Gas appliances may have additional taxes put on them as well.

[dogtag]

Restaurant Chefs cook with Gas.
You can go from high heat to simmer immediately with gas.
With electric, forget it.
Restaurants will be serving burnt food.

[Allen]

Restaurant Chefs cook with Gas.
You can go from high heat to simmer immediately with gas.
With electric, forget it.
Restaurants will be serving burnt food.

I prefer elec but know restaurants have to have gas.

If gas is eliminated restaurants will all go to deli style where food is cooked in advanced with no special orders. Fast food will be pre-cooked stuff heated in microwaves when ordered.

[dogtag]

Or maybe they'll go Propane or Butane

[RED]

All the gas, butane, propane are included in the ban. Notably, gas pipes are buried in the ground while most electricity are transmitted over wires that are easily knocked out. You cannot store electricity anywhere except temporally in a battery. When the SHTF, electricity will be gone very quickly. Just recently a ice storm put out a sisters electricity for 10 days but she could still cook!

[Allen]

After one of our many hurricanes that togor said we never had before "global warming", we had no elec for 2-3 weeks. We did have a gas water heater though and could take warm baths (city water and city nat gas).

[Major Tom]

My house came equipped with electric range. It bit the dust! Replacement cost $1100 and is a basic range with no frills! Last Christmas, our furnace decided to leave us. Called the furnace guy and he got it working temporarly. Cost for a new American made furnace (Amana) plus HVAC system was $9000+. Happy New Year for us?
BTW, niether of the venders had payment options, pay for now they said!

[Allen]

My house came equipped with electric range. It bit the dust! Replacement cost $1100 and is a basic range with no frills! Last Christmas, our furnace decided to leave us. Called the furnace guy and he got it working temporarly. Cost for a new American made furnace (Amana) plus HVAC system was $9000+. Happy New Year for us?
BTW, niether of the venders had payment options, pay for now they said!

Not the fault of the appliances being gas or elec but the local businesses. Next time try Lowes or Home Depot. If I'm not mistaken they contract out HVAC too.

[RED]

My house came equipped with electric range. It bit the dust! Replacement cost $1100 and is a basic range with no frills! Last Christmas, our furnace decided to leave us. Called the furnace guy and he got it working temporarly. Cost for a new American made furnace (Amana) plus HVAC system was $9000+. Happy New Year for us?
BTW, niether of the venders had payment options, pay for now they said!

If you look into it you will find that the price is so high because the Greenies have made your entire system obsolete. You can no longer just replace the compressor, a motor, a solenoid, etc. you have to replace every thing.

[blackhawknj]

The first time there is a major and prolonged blackout, loss of power and people realize an electric stove, electric heating, etc. makes them totally dependent on the power grid while gas heat gives them self sufficiency and indepdendence...

[dogtag]

I have Propane tanks and a burner. I also have a butane stove, 5 Coleman type
lanterns. I also have 2 hurricane lamps (not much good for light, but they look cute)
I was a Boy Scout.

[Vern Humphrey]

I have a fully-finished basement (maintains 55 degrees year round with no heating or air conditioning) with a wood-burning Buck stove and over 160 acres of trees. I have a Coleman lantern, a Coleman stove for cooking and everything thing else I need to survive a sustained blackout (and have done that on multiple occasions when the electricity was out for as much as two weeks.) And nowadays I have a whole-house propane backup generator.