Doug Miller wrote:

In article .com, "Pete C." wrote:

Doug Miller wrote:


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Nope, I do the math. In the case of nat gas, what kills your theoretical
savings is the monthly service charges for the many warm weather months
months when you are using hardly any gas, particularly here in TX where
the heating season is short.

If you're incurring monthly service charges because there are months in which
you use hardly any gas, it's your own fault. Replace your electric dryer with
a gas dryer. Replace your electric water heater with a gas water heater.
You'll be using more gas, obviously, but a whole lot less electricity.

Nope, a gas water heater and dryer will still use very little gas here,
and the electric ones I have use very little electricity. The monthly
service charge for gas service would still eclipse the gas useage.

Wrong. You obviously haven't ever lived with gas appliances; you clearly don't
know *anything* about them.

Electricity use is predominantly A/C and refrigerator during the warm
weather months, the water heater and clothes dryer hardly have any
effect.

A gas water heater and clothes dryer certainly consume enough gas to avoid
minimum monthly service charges. Stop talking about things you know nothing
about.

Perhaps if you are one of those wacko religious nuts with 43 kids. I'm
one single person, I don't use enough hot water or do enough loads of
laundry for the water heating or dryer consumption to be of any
significance. As I said, A/C and refrigerator are the primary power
consumers. My server rack in the garage is next in line.

I have not lived in a home with all gas appliances, nor would I want to
due to their inherent safety hazard (my LP cooktop is about all I can
tolerate and I have an LP detector in the kitchen). I have however done
an extensive analysis of a years worth of utility bills from two
comparable homes, one with gas appliances and one with electric and
found that the much hyped "savings" simply didn't exist.