[haupt]

>In the US around 26% of houses use electricity as their only energy source, compared to around 9% for the UK.

Something that was interesting to me when I moved from California to central Oregon was that nearly everything was powered by electricity. I didn't even know anybody with a gas stove in Oregon.

[lotsofpulp]

I do not know anyone in Portland metro without a gas line to their house. Furnaces, stoves, and water heaters until recently use gas.

I am guessing central Oregon may have been too rural for it to make sense to install gas utilities everywhere?

[phpisthebest]

Rural uses Propane for gas

Midwest is a very common for most rural homes to have 500-1000 gal propane tanks. Propone is more expansive than NatGas but in cold weather it is still cheaper than resistive electric heat...

[haupt]

Could be. We were also on the other side of an entire range of mountains so that may have also had something to do with it.

[vondur]

This seems to be true in the Boise Idaho area too. Our house was one of the few that had a gas stove.