They want rooftop solar. Where I live the roof points in the wrong direction and solar would not work. It's also shaded by other homes and trees.
In large cities with apartments rooftop solar won't even come close to providing enough energy for all the apartments.
I will stick with my environmentally friendly gas dryer and oven, and will avoid the bad for the environment electric version of those.
Maybe when the last carbon and natural gas power plant shuts down I'll consider switching, until then switching to electric would harm the environment.
It seems like a pretty reasonable stance to take to decarbonize given the 15 yearish lifespan of most appliances and the urgency of the problem.
At Rewiring America they found that electrifying all American cars, heating/cooling, appliances, etc would save 40-50% over fossil fuel equivalents just because of the inherent efficiency of electric machinery. This makes the problem of decarbonization 40-50% easier.
First switch the electric grid to not use natural gas and only then think about changing appliances.
I think it is market specific depending on the makeup of your areas grid.
As far as cost in many markets a heat pump is more cost efficient today compared to electric AC and gas furnace.
https://www.breakthroughenergy.org/our-challenge/the-green-p...
They have a lot of technical details of how much carbon it would reduce, how many jobs it would create, how much it will cost, and how to do it on the time-scale necessary to stay below 2 degrees warming. It's really inspiring.