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Well...no--when you heat with it..that is its end use..and is the opposite of versatile..being tasked to one specific function..two if you cook with it as well.When I use natural gas to heat my home, it's pretty versatile.Good question..the answer is in the versatility of electricity vs gas. It's not a zero sum game..we can have both.....IMO.Natural gas will power a turbine right? Produce power..clean power? I see natural gas as a great bridge to green energy...and to weaning America off of FF vehicles.How does it make sense to convert 1 million homes to all electric when America is swimming in natural gas reserves? The strain on their power grid will be enormous.
first step is prying the FF industry's fingers off of our throats.
Natural gas will power a turbine right? Produce power..clean power?
It currently produces clean home heat. Why lose efficiency by creating electricity first?
And more efficient than generating electricity with natural gas.
While I hardly need remind you of the manifold uses for electricity, now do I?
Again, we can, and do, have both applications. Nothing wrong with building all- new natural gas generating facilities--along with scrapping older, less-efficient and polluting old ones as well.
When the smoke clears..the issue is not one of efficiency..but one of entrenched economic interests attempting to hold back the inevitable as long as possible while they reap the profits to that last drop...and then trying to dominate the new game--in their own good time.