On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 06:46:09 -0700, wrote:

If he's using it for heat and cooking and he knows he's in an area where
he's very unlikely to change fuels, then I don't see stopping gas usage as
being an issue.

It's not. There's (almost) no chance (well, it's never zero) that they'll
run a pipe way out here for an alternative fuel.

Electricity, I guess, is the other option - but at the cost of electricity
in California being something like 50 cents a kwh (top tier), that's not
going to work out mathematically (without adding a $50K solar investment
to the mix anyway).