Berkeley becomes first US city to ban natural gas in new homes

Re:Berkeley becomes first US city to ban natural gas in new ... by drewcon on Thursday July 18, 2019 @04:27PM (#20473632)

Sort of?

We don't use electric vehicles for heat, so they are sort of fuel agnostic when it comes to where the electricity is coming from; we burn fossil fuels to make heat or electricity.

The future proofing argument makes some sense for California. Coming from the Northeast heat is a lot more important, I'll do a new HE Gas Boiler for 12k in a single family this year, converting from oil...save me probably 2k a year. If that were electric heat I'd be paying 400% more every year which would be insane.

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/household-heating-costs#co...

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Re:Berkeley becomes first US city to ban natural gas in new ... by Fjolsvith on Friday July 19, 2019 @09:13AM (#20478334)

Agreed. I used to live in Alaska, and when my wife and I bought our first home there, the furnace was broke and we couldn't afford to replace it right away. The electric baseboard heaters cost us $900 to run just for that January!

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Re:Berkeley becomes first US city to ban natural gas in new ... by fooker on Friday July 19, 2019 @12:54AM (#20476272)

And that's exactly why this is being done in California, isn't it?

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