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Old 05-12-2022, 05:45 PM   #79 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary View Post
Natural gas does tend to be much cheaper. But there are homes without natural gas. In those cases it will cost the same to heat the house off of any electric, resistance heater. The only electric heaters that may do better are heat pumps.
Yes, heat pumps are the way to go with electric heat. My current and last 3 houses had heat pumps.

In our current house we replaced a gas furnace with a heat pump. Our January bill dropped from $170 for gas and electricity. Since we put in the heat pump our January utility bills dropped to $95. And that is for a poorly insulated house built in the 70's.

No bad and we get A/C in the summer as a bonus.
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