New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Buildings

Re:New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Bui... by doikor on Sunday April 30, 2023 @08:38AM (#35761994)

> Plus electric goes out often.

This is not something that should happen in urban/sub-urban environment often in a first world country. In rural areas building up the infrastructure to that point can be too expensive but not in built up areas.

In the last ~15 years of living in cities/suburbs in Finland I have not had a single power outage that lasted more then 5 minutes. And even those have been super rare.

If that really is a problem in a first world country (and you are not riving in a really remote area) talk to your politicians as your system is seriously broken and needs fixing.

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Re:New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Bui... by saalweachter on Sunday April 30, 2023 @09:51AM (#35762534)

Also, most rural homes don't have piped gas? You have a big old propane tank instead.

It's not clear to me that this legislation would do anything to stop you from throwing a 250gallon tank on your house to run a generator in upstate NY.

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