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Re:Heat Pumps Work Miracles by thinkcontext on Thursday February 28, 2019 @01:49PM (#19273935)
It seems residential natural gas prices in Sweden are almost 4 times what they are in the US! Show what a carbon tax can do in changing economic decision making.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/702735/household-natural...

Re:Heat Pumps Work Miracles by nray on Thursday February 28, 2019 @03:14PM (#19274664)
Homes are heated with communal hot water, wood gassification (pellet burners), heat exchange with the ground or deeper bore-holes, or electricity. Not much gas, heating oil was gone by the 80's sometime.
Re:Heat Pumps Work Miracles by alkonaut on Thursday February 28, 2019 @02:30PM (#19274292)
This might be because no one in Sweden knows what “residential natural gas” is. I haven’t heard about anyone heating their house with natural gas. Residential gas is used for gas stoves in some old (exclusive) areas of stockholm. Oil used to be a thing but these days it’s usually electric (heat pump) or geothermal.
Re:Heat Pumps Work Miracles by Sharlin on Thursday February 28, 2019 @07:30PM (#19276881)
This demonstrates the danger of assumptions. As others have commented, "residential natural gas" simply isn't a thing in the Nordics.
Re:Heat Pumps Work Miracles by Scoundreller on Thursday February 28, 2019 @01:59PM (#19274032)
And how fearful people are of depending on Russia.