Natural 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 bette

Natural 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.