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I don’t necessarily agree nor disagree with your position. However

> save the costs of the monthly gas hookup

For anyone wondering how much a common gas (propane) stove costs: I have a 100 gallon propane tank that cost ~$300 to fill and lasts multiple years without a refill.

My whole-house generator also runs off the same propane tank. So I refill it maybe once a year (where we average 1-2 days without power per year).

One unspoken benefit of gas: it works without electricity.

I hate the inside air pollution, though.

I could see myself maybe trying induction. I could never switch ti electric. Personal preference but when I turn on a stove I don’t have patience to wait for it to warm up.

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In Pittsburgh, my summertime natural gas bill is about $25 - That's with a gas stove, gas, water heater, and gas dryer. Of that, $14.50 is just the cost to be hooked up to gas. IOW, the connection fee is substantially higher than the cost of the energy I use to cook.

(My winter time bill is much higher; we heat the house with a gas boiler.)

But there's $174/year of savings available if we went all-electric. Which we won't do any time soon, alas.

You won't be saving with eclectic though - since in majority of the US electric is more expensive per unit of power than natural gas.

There's really no reality where you save $14.50 per month by switching to full electric. Rather, your electric bill will skyrocket.

It's more expensive per unit power but heat pumps are more efficient than natural gas boilers. I can't easily retrofit, but a very high SEER heat pump comes out to a similar annual cost as my existing 96% efficient natural gas boiler. But only a very high efficiency one; a middle of the road heat pump loses, partly because I have a very high efficiency condensing boiler and partly because PA has fairly affordable gas rates.

Funny.. here in Pennsylvania, that 100 gallon tank is over $800 to fill and lasts only half the winter. Here I was thinking we had low propane costs.

> lasts only half the winter

Are you also running your heat off the tank? Because it sounds like your parent isn't.

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