its natural gas that could be cleaned up futher for regular use,
supposedly it isnt cost effective...

on the gas vs oil heat consider this.

A electric outage costs the power company little other than fixing what
broke......

a natural gas outage costs a lot to the provider, turn off EVERY
effected home then go back and turn every signle home back on, winter
break in or pay for frozen pipe damage.

gas has a BIG incentive to maintain its infrastructruture well,
electric doesnt really have that same $$ reason.

around here duquesne light historically waits till the transformer
blows, resetting it thermal protection over and over to save a buck.

gas goes around replacing lines thruout their service area.

longest gas outage we ever had ZERO I am 49

Longest electric outage about 4 days after major storm, average outage
6 to 8 hours.. several times a year. mini outages nearly every day of a
few minutes long. I gave up on my microwaves digital clock for this
reason and keep my satellite DVR AKA TIVO on a UPS since it takes my
DVR a couple minutes to reboot and its basically a computer...

Gas CARES electric doesnt although just recently duquesne light having
drawn attention for unreliable service has promised to do better and
raise our rates