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...But only for gas stoves. It would be interesting to see a map of the preferred stove technologies.

• blahedo 12y ago
  And by "preferred" you presumably mean "most used". I live in a town that, inexplicably, does not have access to natural gas lines. A lot of people here would "prefer" gas stoves but we're stuck with electric. :( But yes, I'd love to see a map like that. Before I moved here I assumed that pretty much everywhere in the developed world had natural gas piping, but evidently not.
  • geon 12y ago
    Here in Sweden, I have never seen gas infrastructure. Possibly some o the really old, large cities have it in the "old town". Some enthusiasts have gas stoves, but they would use propane flasks.
• wavefunction 12y ago
  Are you looking for... (puts on thick-rimmed eye-glasses) a heat map?
• analog31 12y ago
  When I lived in a suburb in Texas, there was no natural gas available in the neighborhood. Now I live in a Northern city, and could probably generalize to a reasonable extent: Cities are plumbed for gas, and newer houses will have gas appliances. Many older houses -- even in neighborhoods with gas service -- were heated with oil, and most but not all have been upgraded. Quite a lot of people I know buy a house and discover that there's a gas furnace but everything else is electric. For instance while living in one house, I extended the plumbing so I could install a gas clothes dryer. Folks tend to prefer gas stove. In my house, running gas to the kitchen would require quite a lot of drywall trauma, and I learned to cook on a gas stove, so it's not a big deal for me. In rural areas, it's mostly propane. The house I lived in during grad school had a coal chute.
  • micro_cam 12y ago
    There is a bit of an exodus going on from propane as its price has risen faster then other fuels but otherwise this is spot on.