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brooklyn1

On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 15:57:41 -0300, wrote:

>On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 13:33:59 -0400, Brooklyn1
> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:57:44 -0300, wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 10:32:18 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>>>
>>>>On 8/7/2014 9:18 AM, wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Why isn't gas available? If you own your own home gas is always
>>>>>> available.
>>>>>
>>>>> Not if gas lines are not available, which is the case in many places.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>That is why we have propane. We h ave two 100# tanks and they fill them
>>>>once a year. Yesterday in fact, $164 for a year of cooking. We ditched
>>>>the electric range about 30 years ago and had propane installed.
>>>
>>>I own a condo and although the furnaces for heating have been
>>>converted, the option to cook with it is not available. I do own my
>>>condo which is my home, but gas for cooking is not available.
>>
>>Furnaces converted... from what to what?
>
>Obviously from oil to gas.

Nothing you wrote makes that obvious and I have a lot of talents but I
don't read minds... so what kind of gas... you are very poor at
supplying pertinent details. However if you're heating with gas then
you already have gas available for cooking. It's no big deal to snake
flex tubing from your furnace to anywhere in your condo unit. Often
the gas company would be happy to install the line for free, they'd
make more money selling you more gas. Truth is most likely you
probably don't want to spend for a gas stove... obviously... that's
the real reason why most people with electric stoves don't have gas
stoves... but they manufacture all sorts of fercocktah alibis about it
being too much trouble... the real trouble is they're misers who don't
realize that natural gas cooking over electric cooking will pay for
the new stove in a year or two, propane would take about five years to
pay for the new gas stove but pay for it nonetheless. Were it me in
your situation having gas cooking would be a no brainer. In fact when
I moved here one of the first things I did was to get rid of the last
owners electric stove and have propane installed so I could have gas
cooking. I also had the propane company retrofit the oil fired boiler
to propane; much cleaner, no schtink and no cleaning/maintaining. They
charged for the retrofit unit but not for the installation or gas
lines, even threw in a line for my Weber grill. And it was a big job
to install the 500 gallon propane tank and dig a 40 foot trench to
bury the line and to run gas lines throughout the house... a lot of
pricey fittings involved but cost me nothing... they were very happy
to sell me propane the past eleven years... I'm a very good customer,
all last winter my propane bill was more then $4,500 for heat,
cooking, and grilling, and they were never not paid as soon as the
bill arrived. I can understand if someone lives in a rented apartment
but the ONLY reason someone who lives in their own home who wants gas
cooking doesn't have it is because they are too cheap and and are in
hock because they don't pay their bills.