The financial part of the article is why we’re seeing extensive adoption in rural locations, where people depend on propane, but not in urban areas which are hooked up to the methane distribution system. Getting universal adoption is going to require making electricity cheap and providing support for the appliance switch itself.
I highly doubt you would have to pay anything if you cancel your service. I’ve never heard of anything like that around here, but rules can vary from place to place. You could find out with a call to the gas company though.
I imagine they would shut it off from the street, and your lines wouldn’t have any gas in them.
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well that infrastructure is a sunk cost, and maintaining it is gonna be a huge problem as fewer and fewer users have gas in the coming decades https://heatmap.news/ideas/la-fires-natural-gas
In my state, the gas company charges the property owner installation fees on installing a gas line to the property.
So they’re not really out much if a homeowner changes their mind.
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Yeah, and while the gas company probably doesn’t charge full price for the installation, they make their money back pretty quickly, so it all comes out in the wash anyways.