On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 00:31:49 -0500, AzuReBlue
> wrote:

> In article >,
> says...
> > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 16:52:05 -0600, "jmcquown"
> > > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > And Ray won't hear of a gas range; he's got a terrible
> > > paranoia about cooking with gas.
> > >
> >
> > I with Ray - especially about the ovens... and gas dryers
> > too.
> >
> > They're creepy, latently dangerous and much more of a
> > concern to me than some electric coil "bursting" (never
> > heard that one before).
> >
>
> After reading that, I'm looking at my appliances in a whole new light
> now :-) Everything in my house is gas - stove, hot water heater, furnace
> and dryer. Maybe it's a regional thing, but here in mich. gas is alot
> cheaper than electric and if the power goes out, I can still cook and
> take a hot shower. It seems to heat the house alot better too.

The fuel you use to heat your house is your least expensive
fuel, because it's considered the "main" fuel.

We use gas for our furnace and hot water heater. Therefore
gas is less expensive. If all I cared about was the
expense, I'd cook with gas and dry my clothes with gas...
but I can't do it. It absolutely creeps me out to use a gas
oven or dryer (I'm getting better about gas stovetops but I
don't want one in my home).

The only way I can rectify my non-reluctance about using gas
for the furnace and water heater is:
Out of sight, out of mind.


I'm from Michigan too, but when I lived there, our heat was
oil, not gas. We had huge tanks that the supplier's truck
pumped oil into and they had to be a certain number of yards
from the house in case they blew up. Oil/gas... get it?