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In my area electricity costs 4X that of natural gas

Curious, what does this mean?

I am going to take a guess here Paul
My father has a home that was identical to the homes on either side of the home. The neighbor to the left owned an electrical supply business and displayed a medallion that claimed his home was "All Electric"

The neighbor to the right was heated by a gas boiler

Being an oil dealer, our home was heated by oil.

So my father asked if the neighbors would be kind enough to share their heating bills with him for comparison of heating 3 identical homes using 3 different fuel sources.

The "All Electric Medallion" home was offered a reduced rate for electricity. So the comparison was a bit tainted on the electric side, However out of the three homes, the electric heated home with the special rate was still more expensive to heat than in the Gas or Oil heated home. (comparison was in the 1960s in Philadelphia county)

So I'm guessing that @BobC has a means to compare heating with electric resistance and fossil fuel, and the price difference was a factor of 4. Like $100.00 of electricity did the same job as $25.00 of Gas. That would mean that you need a heat pump with a COP of 4 for electric to be equal to Gas heat,


But this is only a guess.
And it is a fact that 64.2% of statistics are made up.... I know that because I just made this one up!