Ed Pawlowski wrote:

"Pete C." wrote in message
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Steve Barker wrote:

while you're at it, search for auto fatalities. Gonna quit driving also?


It's a matter of practical, safer alternatives. There are few
alternatives to autos, unless you live in a big city, but there are
plenty of safer alternatives to nat gas appliances / heating.

I did the search on CNN. They were in the Ukraine, a pub in Ireland, etc.
I'm not going to bother looking for statistics, but if you look at
fatalities by various sources, I think NG is way down on the list. A few
years ago we did have a house in my town get leveled though. There was a
very small leak and someone probing for it made a big gas leak that seeped
into the house. Human error caused a small problem to become a big one.

I'd still switch to gas if I could. We use propane for cooking.

You didn't search very well, all that I were referring to were in the
US. I believe one was in MA, another in CA, etc. Not up to the rate of
fatal auto accidents, but far above the rate of plane crashes.

I still find it incredible that they have required smoke detectors for
years, and now CO detectors, but there are still no requirements for
residential gas detectors, even though gas detectors have been standard
equipment in RVs for years.

I have LP that fuels my cooktop only (electric ovens), and I have a
combo CO/Gas detector in the vicinity. While I like to cook on gas, I
can also cook just fine on electric and I only have it here because it
came with the house.