Natural gas is a great American energy resource, only a dunderhead would suggest reducing its use.
The only result from these stupid “bans” is that natural gas will be saved for future use when the cost of electricity is 100 times the cost of gas. Another fact is that our beautiful planet produces natural gas. We will have the use of natural gas for a very long time.
The thing about using electric heat is that it generates more than 2.5 times more green house gasses as natural gas heat. As if that actually matters to these people.
The process of generating electricity is limited by the laws of thermodynamics and the max efficiency of these plants is about 40% of the heat being converted to electricity. But, line loses in transmission decrease the system efficiency of “heat” being delivered even more.
The waste heat from creating this electricity must be released to the environment and it is not very useful because it has to be released at the lowest temperature possible or the efficiency of the generation process is reduced more. So, most of the heat is dispersed via cooling towers that just heat the air around the plant or into rivers which is another version of useless. And, that is the way of thermodynamics.. from useful to useless.
But, that same heat used to heat a house is useful until it leaks out the walls and into the ground around the house as heat. So, natural gas gives every BTU of heat as heat to heat. Why are these people so silly? Because that Electric Plant is a target for taxes and regulation and a choke point to control people. Which is what this is really about, power, not electric but political.