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> Electricity is several times more expensive than gas per unit of energy in CA Fossil fuel usage is vastly more expensive when the externalities are accounted
by mullingitover 4y ago
> Electricity is several times more expensive than gas per unit of energy in CA
Fossil fuel usage is vastly more expensive when the externalities are accounted for. This is like saying it's more financially responsible to just put everything on credit cards and ignore the ever-growing balance statements.
- Gigachad 4y agoNot to mention the huge amount of air pollution created from burning gas indoors.
- refurb 4y agoNatural gas was the largest source of electricity generation in California in 2021, accounting for nearly half of the power generated in the U.S. state. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1287660/california-electricity-generation-share-by-source https://www.statista.com/statistics/1287660/california-elect...
- themoonisachees 4y agoNatural gas plants are entire factories designed to extract as much energy per unit of gas as they can. If you want to just compare carbon emissions, it's better to burn gas in a plant to generate electricity to do whatever you wanted than to pipe the gas to a home. This is not even accounting for the fact that this also removes the danger piping highly flammable gas to people's homes, and that it also removes the source of pollution away from population centers.
- HDThoreaun 4y agoThe whole point of externalities is that they’re not accounted for though.