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>In the US around 26% of houses use electricity as their only energy source, compared to around 9% for the UK.

Something that was interesting to me when I moved from California to central Oregon was that nearly everything was powered by electricity. I didn't even know anybody with a gas stove in Oregon.



I do not know anyone in Portland metro without a gas line to their house. Furnaces, stoves, and water heaters until recently use gas.

I am guessing central Oregon may have been too rural for it to make sense to install gas utilities everywhere?


Rural uses Propane for gas

Midwest is a very common for most rural homes to have 500-1000 gal propane tanks. Propone is more expansive than NatGas but in cold weather it is still cheaper than resistive electric heat...


Could be. We were also on the other side of an entire range of mountains so that may have also had something to do with it.


This seems to be true in the Boise Idaho area too. Our house was one of the few that had a gas stove.




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