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I am all for heat pumps, but this seems a bit extreme. They want this to be enacted within one year? They want a gas stove to be regulated the same way as a pow

I am all for heat pumps, but this seems a bit extreme. They want this to be enacted within one year? They want a gas stove to be regulated the same way as a power plant? At a time when we _badly_ need to build more housing that people can actually afford, artificially raising the cost of building new homes also seems problematic. The rhetoric used by the republican lawmakers opposed to it does sound like the usual anti-regulation talking points, but I have to agree with them in this case. This would make life a lot harder and more expensive for a lot of people and I don't think "a few environmental groups" is enough consensus for the entire country.

jdhn 4y ago
They're starting off by stating their ultimate goal (ban natural gas), but will end up walking it back as a "compromise" in order to seem not as extreme.
jabl 4y ago
Would it actually raise the cost? Yes, a heat pump is more expensive than a gas furnace, but for an all-electric home you save the cost of a gas hookup. Hell, when building new neighborhoods, can save infrastructure costs by not building out gas infrastructure. Also, depending on what kind of heat pump you install it can also function as an AC unit, so you don't need to install separate AC. Besides, if you're concerned about affordable housing, wouldn't (in the US at least) the first priority be to kill single-family zoning?