Let’s all run out and buy electric cars and replace our natural gas furnaces with heat pumps. Yea, that’s the ticket.
My furnace guy tells me that all modern gas furnaces require electricity. And by golly, he was right. I lost electricity for two days last winter. And so I lost heat for two days last winter.
It wasn’t pleasant. Given that Biden continues to weaken the grid, I suppose I should be expecting more of that in the future.
And as a side note, there is a huge coal-fired electricity plant about a half-hour from my house. It goes on for blocks and blocks. It’s abandoned. The EPA shut it down about ten years ago.