On 8/22/2019 4:52 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
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I'm in FL now and it seldom gets below 40 here. My electric bill was
$70 for January. In CT it would have been closer to $100 plus the cost
of heating oil, another $150 or so. They work well in milder climates.
Remember some years back when the all electric house was touted as the
future? Yeah, not with the cold temperatures and high electric rates in
the Northeast.



The all elecrtric houses are great. Mine is all electric.

The qualifier is you have to be in an area that is not much different
than in the middle of NC where I am or warmer in the winter and the
electric rates are not very high. As discussed the heat pump does not
work well much below 25 deg F. The resistance electric heat is way
expensive if used very much. I bet in the north where it stays below 20
deg much of the time there no way to use electric heat of any kind cost
wise.

I remember the so called Gold Madalion homes that were the big thing
around this area about 50 years ago. I may be remembering wrong, but
think when I was very little I was in someones house that had that
madalion on it. Then there were the commercials about heating with
oil and how inexpensive it was. The first oil I bought was around 1972
just before the big oil crisis. It was less than 20 cents per gallon
delivered. The very next time or two I filled up the tank I had sticker
shock. Not sure what it is now, probably over $ 2 per gallon.


Down the street from me in CT was a small development of about 25
houses, all electric. About 24 of them converted to other forms of
heat. Electric was .21/kwh. Heating with resistance electric makes
no sens there.

Last year there I paid about $2.30 for oil. Few years back it topped at
$3+