Well that ties in nicely to getting rid of PG&E and other extortionate commercially run utilities.
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In my extremely expensive 1960s Los Angeles shitbox I mean apartment the gas heater and window A/C units can’t keep up because there’s no insulation and the single pane windows leak like hell.
Even if it were to be properly insulated you still wouldn’t be able to give up natural gas because the electric company can’t keep shit running. I had to buy a UPS because I got so sick of my networking gear and smart home constantly shutting down at random. Our cable company can’t keep their service running after a “storm” (when it’s windy sometimes) so I’ve even got cellular backup for multi-WAN.
I really cannot stand natural gas and I hate polluting the environment but my landlord would have to essentially tear down and rebuild the entire property for it to make sense. We’d probably need some $10k Tesla Powerwall and solar if we wanted to keep it clean because these bozos at the utilities can’t get their shit together (oh, and I forgot to mention the constant gas leaks and tearing up random streets to get to the gas pipelines all the time too).
Living in Los Angeles is like going back in time, it’s a trip. Our 1800s houses in the Midwest had fewer problems than this “wealthy” expensive part of LA. I love this city but housing and infrastructure is a joke.
I'd be writing a letter to the Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners if things were that unreliable.
And yeah, nothing built before the 1970s energy crisis in California has insulation. Stuff built after that tends to be well-insulated.