"m Ransley" wrote in message
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An All Electric house is a joke for 98% of the US that live in areas
north of zone 8 as electricity is double the cost per BTU for most.

Two things:

1) Heat pumps (especially ground source heat pumps)

2) "Micro zoned" heating whereby you only heat the ROOMS (no the zones) of
the house in active use.

It would be silly to automatically shut out consideration of all electric
(with, maybe, a propane vestless heater for backup) living.

In places where it gets VERY cold, you can consider heatpump "background"
heat with baseboard electric for room by room comfort.

If heating season is expensive