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Why is this being downvoted? Are those living in the liberal Northeast US ever proposing to reduce heating? Not much. Read the comments here — using “less AC” a

Why is this being downvoted? Are those living in the liberal Northeast US ever proposing to reduce heating? Not much. Read the comments here — using “less AC” appears more frequently than “use less heat.” My point is that you have a point. Colder places lament the AC use of hotter places because they aren’t significantly proposing to limit their own quality of life, but the quality of life of people that don’t vote like them.

dashundchen 7y ago
Many of the populous northern states (I am familiar with at least MA and NY) are heavily incentivizing weatherization, solar, and eliminating fossil fuels by switching to electric ground and air source heat pumps. Lowest hanging fruit is rural oil and propane heated houses but I expect natural gas to be targeted soon considering New York's climate goals. Combined with the efforts to switch the grid to renewables (net-zero electric grid by 2040 and net-zero altogether by 2050) this should greatly reduce emissions coming from eating. https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/6/20/18691058/new-york-green-new-deal-climate-change-cuomo https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/6/20/1869105... In fact, New York has aggressively limited the expansion of natural gas pipelines and recently both ConEd and National Grid, two major gas providers, said in response they will stop expanding their network. IMO New York's energy agencies are using this to see if they can fully eliminate fossil fuels from new development and start a phase out. https://enerknol.com/national-grid-stops-accepting-new-gas-service-requests-in-new-york-following-williams-pipeline-denial/ https://enerknol.com/national-grid-stops-accepting-new-gas-s... https://www.nyserda.ny.gov/All-Programs/Programs/Clean-Energy-Action-Plan https://www.nyserda.ny.gov/All-Programs/Programs/Clean-Energ...

dashundchen 7y ago

Many of the populous northern states (I am familiar with at least MA and NY) are heavily incentivizing weatherization, solar, and eliminating fossil fuels by switching to electric ground and air source heat pumps. Lowest hanging fruit is rural oil and propane heated houses but I expect natural gas to be targeted soon considering New York's climate goals. Combined with the efforts to switch the grid to renewables (net-zero electric grid by 2040 and net-zero altogether by 2050) this should greatly reduce emissions coming from eating. https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/6/20/18691058/new-york-green-new-deal-climate-change-cuomo https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/6/20/1869105... In fact, New York has aggressively limited the expansion of natural gas pipelines and recently both ConEd and National Grid, two major gas providers, said in response they will stop expanding their network. IMO New York's energy agencies are using this to see if they can fully eliminate fossil fuels from new development and start a phase out. https://enerknol.com/national-grid-stops-accepting-new-gas-service-requests-in-new-york-following-williams-pipeline-denial/ https://enerknol.com/national-grid-stops-accepting-new-gas-s... https://www.nyserda.ny.gov/All-Programs/Programs/Clean-Energy-Action-Plan https://www.nyserda.ny.gov/All-Programs/Programs/Clean-Energ...