Gainesville Regional Utilities is on a misguided mission to promote natural gas. On its website you can read what at first sounds like a joke: “With natural gas, water heats up twice as fast and stays hot longer! Clothing dries more quickly and with fewer wrinkles! Food tastes better when prepared using natural gas!” This would be funny if it weren’t so costly and wrong.
So desperate is GRU to push natural gas over electricity that our local utility company is now offering rebates (up to $1,600 per location!) to convert electric hot water heaters, furnaces, ranges and dryers to natural gas.