I think it's Americans invested in competing technologies, doing the modern cultural thing of hyperbola and escalation to the point of insisting that people ret

I think it's Americans invested in competing technologies, doing the modern cultural thing of hyperbola and escalation to the point of insisting that people retrofitting stuff with heat pumps are MURDERERS and clearly seeking to literally kill hapless victims. I'm seeing a lot of intense argument here that's going waaay over to the extremes of scaremongering, and the context doesn't seem to warrant using emotional arguments to shut down the proposal in shame and guilt over actually setting out to kill lots of foolish people. That seems… excessive, as a claim. Me, I'm in southern Vermont, heat with a wood stove and oil furnace, and just replaced a deteriorating resistive water heater with a big heat pump water heater. I do envy the cooking-with-flame folks, though :)