It might feel that way, but it's likely an attempt to push developers to stop connecting new houses up to gas lines. It's less efficient and this kind of winding down of natural gas as an energy source should have started in the 70s:(
That’s a good point, I’m fortunate not to live in McMansion hell but remembering how quickly suburbs spread in southern cities gives a different perspective.
But if this is the case they need to do fireplaces and water heaters too
Indeed! It makes me so sad knowing what marvels of infrastructure we could be building (e.g., massive city scale underground water reservoirs for both backup potable water and geothermal heat pumping is probably affordable if we sacrifice construction of a single 100 million dollar state subsidized prison, but then we couldn't enslave our drug users:( )
It might feel that way, but it's likely an attempt to push developers to stop connecting new houses up to gas lines. It's less efficient and this kind of winding down of natural gas as an energy source should have started in the 70s:(
That’s a good point, I’m fortunate not to live in McMansion hell but remembering how quickly suburbs spread in southern cities gives a different perspective.
But if this is the case they need to do fireplaces and water heaters too
Indeed! It makes me so sad knowing what marvels of infrastructure we could be building (e.g., massive city scale underground water reservoirs for both backup potable water and geothermal heat pumping is probably affordable if we sacrifice construction of a single 100 million dollar state subsidized prison, but then we couldn't enslave our drug users:( )