The rise in cost of Natural Gas is why so many people are moving to solarize their homes and buying electric cars and trucks

 We had an experience with our other home in Santa Barbara because it was built in the 1950s the Natural Gas lines haven't been replaced likely since the 1950s. So, when they failed we had people come who specialize in finding where the break or breaks are in the line.

Luckily for us and for our daughter and her husband who are living in that house, the gas lines broke or eroded away in the yard between the road and the house. So, when researchers shoved Hydrogen down the line to find out where they leak was (not sure why they use Hydrogen?) they found it leaking up through the soil between the paved road outside the house and the house. This is very lucky because if the leak had been inside the house it could have blown the house up like you see in the news periodically around the U.S. from too old Natural Gas infrastructure. 

At this point we decided to go all electric simply because to reinstall with a new Natural Gas line was going to cost at least 20,000 dollars to replace this line because of the distances involved from the nearest gas main near the street.

We also knew we were going to go solar with that house because it's sunny enough year around to do this and to thereby reduce our electric bill there by about 85% through solar energy converted to electricity.

So, this is what we are doing now. We already replaced the roof and stanchions were installed to receive the solar panels already. So, now it's mostly about doing all the other things necessary to complete the work mostly of an electrical nature around the house.