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To: polymuser
The same way. The point is that having a source of heat that doesn’t rely on natural gas doesn’t help if the furnace has to be started by electrical power that is generated by natural gas.

If your electricity is generated by natural gas, then a gas supply disruption will shut down gas AND oil furnaces.

30 posted on 02/20/2021 5:08:56 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: Alberta's Child

If you lose power, it doesn’t matter what furnace fuel you use (for electric-controlled furnaces, of course). You’ll need a generator to run it.

If you have oil, propane or coal, loss of NG pressure doesn’t render your furnace useless. (That NG furnace is useless without NG flow, regardless.)

With propane, though, you can have non-electric, catalytic, oxygen-monitoring indoor heaters for emergency heat.


42 posted on 02/20/2021 5:27:06 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Most natural gas power plants are only online during the summer when natural gas demand and prices are lower.


88 posted on 02/20/2021 8:25:01 AM PST by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying Too All.)
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