The vast majority of home gas is used over winter for heating. Move that to electricity and the use drops massively. Even more is used in power stations. Right now, even if you switch to heat pumps, you’ll be using gas to heat your home and water anyway.
Gas will not run out in the next ten years. Even at doomsayer estimates, we’ve got 40 years. And we keep finding more and using shale gas and so on. When I was in school, we were told it would run out by the 2010s. We’ve until then to think about things like upgrading the electric supply to homes and municipal hot water systems.
The vast majority of home gas is used over winter for heating. Move that to electricity and the use drops massively. Even more is used in power stations. Right now, even if you switch to heat pumps, you’ll be using gas to heat your home and water anyway.
Gas will not run out in the next ten years. Even at doomsayer estimates, we’ve got 40 years. And we keep finding more and using shale gas and so on. When I was in school, we were told it would run out by the 2010s. We’ve until then to think about things like upgrading the electric supply to homes and municipal hot water systems.