On 11/4/2012 3:49 PM, Han wrote:
Frank wrote in
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You're lucky. We could not get gas when our house was built. Oil
furnace with blower takes a lot of juice. So does well. I've got
5,500 watt generator but hot water, stove and AC are all off line when
power fails. Well, furnace, freezer and refrigerator were main
reasons I got a generator and no way could these be handled off an
inverter.

Given a choice, I don't understand why anyone would buy a home that
didn't have natural gas. I do understand that sometimes there is no
choice. We had an oil furnace in our previous home, but it was
expensive to run, stinky and not very reliable. There was gas for the
stove. OK, the furnace was an old system. I would definitely ditch it
for a gas furnace if I'd had to replace it. With gusto if I had known
in advance that gas would drop in price by as much as it has.
Luckily, where I have lived there has always been municipal water, gas
of some sort, and electricity. Except for a few years, there has always
been a sewer system as well.


Power company would not install new gas lines at time my house was
built. I think some older neighbors have it and line would be maybe 300
yards from my house. No sewer or water lines on my street either.
Electric, fios and cable are underground. Watching fios and Comcast cut
each others lines accidentally in installations, I would not want to be
around if gas or sewer were installed.