Posted on 08/26/2025 5:12:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Mom used gas stove and gas furnace for 50 years...and she lived to 90.
Pure insanity.
The minute this BS started in my state, I called the gas company and had a line run to my home (they did it for free) and installed a gas stove in my kitchen, a life long culinary desire. This year our 30 year old electric furnace and heat pump gave up the ghost and was replaced with a gas furnace and A/C unit.
When the dryer dies it will be replaced with gas, if the water heater goes, it will be replaced with gas.
It’s quite a bit cheaper to run than the overpriced electricity that has been mandated by the state to be increasingly sourced to wind and solar at premium prices.
The gas cooktop in our house is one of the best things about it. Had electric for a long time and always hated it.
3 weeks ago, I ordered a 30” LP Gas range for my wife. It will be used at our house at the farm. 75 year old house, originally had gas range, long ago. She likes gas ranges and she remembers when the AC power went out for a week, a few years go.
This one requires no AC power to operated, there are 2 floor furnaces that are on milivolt system. Small battery ignites the flame. It is not a standing pilot system.
So the idiots can Tomah. We will be cooking with Gas.
When I was a boy, we had a Servel refrigerator. Only issue was it had to be manually defrosted.
I love my gas water heater, stove, furnace and dryer. We’ve had extended power outages that I breezed through with my stove, and water heater. If I really wanted to I could rig up an easy way to run my furnace fans with back up batteries to have heat. I have had many power outages in my life, but never a gas outage.
I grew up with two gas stoves, a gas refrigerator, hot water heater, and gas furnace.
Public water and sewer.
Electrical power interruptions were minor inconveniences.
Exactly.
“Electrical power interruptions were minor inconveniences.”
We lived in the country. Ice storms would break power poles and high win would do the same.
When I was young we had to put in our own telephone poles and replace the broken glass insulators. And it was a party line. smile.
We thought nothing about it.
Of course democrat buddies will be exempted.
I don’t have time to calculate it now but I seriously doubt a single democrat has done the analysis of how much it costs to run the electricity to an apartment complex for all the heating and cooking versus what it costs to run a gas pipe for heating and cooking.
She must have been wearing a mask. /s
Dems in Colorado don’t have the balls to ban gas appliances ... yet
Everything in my house runs off natural gas. Way cheaper and more convenient than electricity.
Converted from oil heat to natural gas this past spring. The old oil boiler was very noisy and was fixin’ to break in a way that would have required an immediate replacement. So I pre-empted it and got the gas company to run the gas from the street to the house for free, and had a high efficiency gas boiler installed with a built in tankless water heater. Can’t wait for the cold weather to see how it runs. When it’s heating water you literally have to put your ear next to it to hear it.
It’ll pay for itself within seven years.
The Democrats are making total economic war on the American people, including those who vote for them.
They have repudiated peaceful coexistence.
“...Tomah...”
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Oops, forgot to mention that the glass top on our three year old electric range cracked. It’s gonna cost about $1,000 to have it fixed. We’re considering taking the opportunity to install a gas range instead.
The Congress should pass federal laws to stop this nonsense. Bans on natural gas, drilling, etc are that’s to our economic and national security.
States like California are sitting on massive resources, which they are denying the whole country.
We lived through the 1979 ice storm in New York on Long Island. We had no electricity for two weeks. The temperature did not go above freezing in all that time
We had wood for the fireplace and lived around it. Some of us went into town on bad roads for pizza- gas pizza ovens.
It wasn’t like the horrific Texas storm we also went through 4 years ago. Single digits no electricity, where it was in the 70s a week later
We never got an explanation for that
In NY, rain then sleet then snow then freezing temps weighed down the power lines and they broke
Germans bury their power lines but we don’t
In both cases the government and power companies got to work doing what they needed to do but it wasn’t enough
Word is that the Texans were depending on wind power. Whatever it was it was not good. I’m sure it’s not fixed
I would never depend on only electricity and not ever would depend on government and power companies to fix it or keep my family alive
People around me, college educated, would say I can’t believe it got cold inside the house. An un insulated house 48 hours of sub freezing temps
For New York to talk about going electric only smells to me like very bad intent
Whoa.
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