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dsi1[_15_]

On 8/9/2013 7:44 PM, wrote:
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> I wouldn't have an all gas home, no matter how romantic gas light is. Changing
> the mantles is a pain, and of course they are radioactive.

Well OK, it wasn't literally an all gas home. The lights and the
refrigerator was electric as was the TV. :-) The clothes dryer and water
heater was gas. Over the decades, the money my parents saved was
substantial.

We once had a clothes dryer that died and I watched the repair guy work
on the machine I think it was either the belt or the door latch switch
that was faulty. He then said that it looked like the dryer had jets
installed for propane, not natural gas. The jets are nozzles with holes
of various sizes that controls the flow of the fuel. Jets for natural
gas are bigger than propane because propane contains about twice as much
energy as NG. Anyway, the repairman puts the dryer together and runs a
test. That thing sounded like it had a blowtorch in it - we had been
running it throttled way down for years. Boy, that dryer worked swell
after that.

>
> When I was a kid, the gas utility had a jingle: Gas does the big jobs better,
> for less. And consistently since that time, natural gas has been cheaper
> than electricity for heating, cooking, and drying clothes. And it is available
> whenever you want it -- there has never been a natural gas outage in my
> experience.
>