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During power outages, having natural gas in your home is a huge benefit. Many in my area just experienced it with Helene. You can still cook. You can still get
by brightball 2y ago
During power outages, having natural gas in your home is a huge benefit. Many in my area just experienced it with Helene.
You can still cook. You can still get hot water. If you have gas logs you still have a heat source in the winter too.
These trade offs are far more important to a lot of people.
- moooo99 2y agoGranted, that is a valid concern if power outages are more frequent in your area. I have never experienced a power outage personally, so that is nothing I ever thought of. However, I feel like with solar power and battery storage systems becoming increasingly widespread, this won't be a major concern for much longer
- brightball 2y agoThey aren’t frequent but in the last 15-16 years there have been 2 outages that lasted almost 2 weeks in some areas around here. The first one was in the winter and the only gas appliance I had was a set of gas logs in the den. It heated my whole house and we used a pan to cook over it. When we moved the first thing I did was install gas logs, gas stove and a gas water heater. It’s nice to have options and backup plans. That’s one of the reasons I was a huge fan of the Chevy Volt when it first came out. I could easily take it on a long trip but still averaged 130mpg over 3 years (twice). Now I’ve got a Tesla and when there are fuel shortages it’s also really nice. A friend of ours owns a cybertruck and was without power for 9 days, but just powered the whole house with the cybertruck. Every couple of days he’d drive to a supercharger station to recharge.