The Infrastructure for Natural gas is mostly very old. All you have to do is to look at incidents like the San Bruno Gas fire to see this. I will share videos of this gas fire later. However, if you notice that periodically more through the years that natural Gas is blowing up more businesses and other buildings in the U.S. This is because all states likely are trying to move away from natural gas to electrical sources of heat. Though I understand this it is also paradoxical simply because here in California if you use electricity from a power station most of it is generated through Natural Gas and not some other source of power. So, you are still using natural gas just in another form.
So, on one level it makes more sense to me to update the Natural Gas Infrastructure everywhere so not so many houses and businesses are blowing up from old Natural Gas connections and faulty old heaters etc.
So, I believe the emphasis should be on saving lives rather than converting from natural Gas in homes and Businesses to electricity that (at least here in California) is almost always generated by Natural Gas anyway. So, it seems more efficient for people to use natural gas themselves to heat their homes to maintain that natural Gas infrastructure because electricity isn't a very efficient heater anyway. Natural Gas is a much more efficient heater of homes and businesses than electricity because the electricity is generated by Natural Gas usually and this just seems much less efficient for people in the short and long run anyway.
Here are some videos on the San Bruno Natural Gas Fire which was pretty bad in the SF Bay Area about 13 years ago now:
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