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Re:New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Bui... by hedora on Saturday April 29, 2023 @07:19PM (#35758251)
This simply isn’t true any more.

The price of gas is going up, and the price of electricity is plummeting thanks to renewables.

Also, the efficiency of electric ranges has doubled in recent years. Heatpumps are something like 3-10x more efficient than older systems.

Our electric dryer greatly outperforms any old gas dryers we had, and it wasn’t significantly more expensive.

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Re:New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Bui... by ineedasername on Saturday April 29, 2023 @07:38PM (#35758375)
>and the price of electricity is plummeting thanks to renewables.

Not according to sources I can find. EIA forecasts for the long term project continued increases through 2050 [1] Maybe in locations elsewhere in the world? Or specific states in the US? Certainly not where I live, which is aggressively pursuing renewables and despite this prices continue to increase, and were doing so before the spike in natural gas prices.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/data/browser/#/?id=1-AEO202...

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Re:New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Bui... by ZeroGravitas on Saturday April 29, 2023 @08:10PM (#35758545)
That's nominal price, their inflation adjusted prices, which they also provide, drop.
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Re:New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Bui... by ineedasername on Saturday April 29, 2023 @09:37PM (#35758951)
Good point, I missed that. But that is still very far from plummeting. It’s a very gradual decline that assumes inflation stays above 2% (though that is probably a reasonable assumption)

I hope they will plummet, I just don’t see much pointing in that direction right now.

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