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Rebates on appliances at least are happening: the Inflation Reduction Act has $4.5 billion set aside for rebates on new electric appliances. There's not a new t
by ryukafalz 4y ago
Rebates on appliances at least are happening: the Inflation Reduction Act has $4.5 billion set aside for rebates on new electric appliances. There's not a new tax at this point but I don't think tax/rebate and banning new gas installations are necessarily mutually exclusive.
> I just installed a new gas boiler (I wanted to go electric but it was massively economically disadvantageous). That thing is probably going to run for 20 years.
You're making a bet that gas will remain economically advantageous over electric for 20 years. I don't know about you, but the way the winds are shifting, that doesn't sound like a good bet.
- sokoloff 4y agoMy electricity is ~53% in total and ~80% marginally in wintertime produced by natural gas. They're pretty correlated here and likely to remain so for a decade or more. If they do disconnect and electric becomes advantageous, I'll have saved money for likely a decade and can consider switching at that point. (It was capital costs that made it non-advantageous, not operating costs.)