Comments by "" (@Green__one) on "Home Electrification: There's not a lot to do, and it doesn't have to be hard (Part 1)" video.

  1. The reason they think you are insane, is because you are literally paying a whole bunch of money to replace perfectly good appliances, just so that you can INCREASE your monthly energy bills. There is simply no good reason for anyone to do such a thing.
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  2. "I don't want you to leave money on the table" Is that some form of sick joke? This whole video is all about how you should pay tens of thousands of dollars, to throw out perfectly good appliances, just so that you can have a HIGHER monthly utility bill! And then you have the gall to talk about "money on the table"? If this had anything to do with money, you'd be talking about how to replace electric heat/clothes dryers/stoves with their cheaper natural gas counterparts which cost 1/5th as much per month to run!
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  3.  @KevinSauer  Even if you're waiting until they break (which is actually not what he advocates for in this video), why would you intentionally buy appliances that cost 5 times as much to operate? Electricity is "shockingly" expensive when compared to cheap natural gas.
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  4. Fossil fuel prices may be volatile, but electricity prices are even more so, and while both are climbing, the cost of electricity is climbing WAY faster than that of natural gas. In fact, the only part of the natural gas bill that's actually climbing for me is the increased taxes. Still, even then it's less than 1/5th the cost per unit of energy, so you'd be stupid to pay tens of thousands of dollars to move away from it.
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  5. It's not hard, it's just INCREDIBLY expensive. With a unit of electricity costing more than 5 times as much as an equivalent unit of natural gas, and the installation costs of each alternative being many thousands of dollars, you'd have to be insane to actually do it.
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  6.  @KevinSauer  I too have a solar array, and it powers my house. That doesn't really change the math though, electricity is still significantly more expensive than natural gas. Even at the incredibly low rates of the utility will pay me for my electrical export, it's still three times the cost of natural gas, and when it comes to import electricity, which tends to be a larger portion of my cooking as I generally cook around the time the sun's going down, I'm up to five times the cost of natural gas.
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