Gas heat gets my vote
If you wanna stay warm with your buds in the dorm,
PROPANE.
If you wanna get hot and not pay a lot,
PROPANE
It ain’t high! It ain’t high! It ain’t high!
PROPANE!..............................
“First, this winter will likely be milder than last winter.”
BWA HA HA HA HA!
Sweater.
Natural gas is the cheapest where we live.
Gas heat.
Heat pumps down to about 35 degrees, then over to propane from there on down.
and FJB.....
Defrost cycle on my heat pump drives me nuts at night. I drop the setting to 62 or so, then set it back up to 68 later to drive the warm, quiet gas heat on.
When below freezing, there is no way the pump is more efficient.
Using energy to produce things generates waste heat, very useful for warming a house but little else. Heating costs can be reduced by first using the energy to make something useful. For natural gas, it can be burned in a turbine to generate electricity. For copious amounts of electric heat, install a 3D metal printer and manufacture something. Just burning limited energy resources for heat is like burning money, is bad for the environment and economy.
Wood! Plus it warms you when you cut it. It warms you when you split it. It warms you when you stack it.
Gas heat gets my vote
Very confusing. I can say this. You can’t link Heating oil and K1 into one category. The price is very different.
They are pushing heat pumps as if they are the cats meow. They don’t work good in cold climates. Without some other form of heat people will freeze.
Most people had normal electric heat which runs 3x that of natural gas.
I have a geothermal water furnace. December, January and February I see bill around $200. $150/month give or take the rest of the year. The unit seems to be able cool more efficiently than heat cost wise.
The house is 2,500 sq/ft. Touchstone Energy efficient. It keeps up with heating, unless it is below zero for an extended period. I have a wood burner to supplement.
I had to live in England for a year at the end of my service. Wife and baby boy and I had to travel 50% TDY. We had a house off base and it was a 50s-60s model with all electric heat baseboards.
It did have a small coal/wood stove in the main hallway that mainly heated water in a tank in the attic that fed the electric water heater and a small wall radiator. My wife didn’t use the stove because it was difficult to start burning and handling the coal, etc. so the only room she heated was the baby’s room with electric heat. When I was home we still only heated the baby’s room but I ran the boiler all the time. I’ll never go electric.
We moved to Maryland about 14 years ago. Homes here can be either electric, oil or gas. One of the few non-negotiables when I was looking for a house was natural gas heat.
There are too many variables to provide a definitive answer
To ask the question is ignorant and irrelevant
Don’t forget to claim the energy efficiency home improvement tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act.
Electricity is only 35% efficient the higher the load the higher the cost.
No grid system can withstand snow and ice wind storms and hot summer weather transformers go off like pop corn due to high demand.
Texas has the greatest amount of wind and solar system but when they had a bad snow storm and no wind many people froze to death a few years ago.