[gertop]

> Electric is impractical as New England winters are cold as balls and the houses are usually old and not that well insulated.

They have the same situation a bit further north in Quebec, same vintage of houses, possibly colder winters. Yet they manage with electricity somehow?

[fujigawa]

It helps that they have cheap hydro out the ass so you don't really care if you need heat pump auxiliary heat, it kind of inverts the equation:

Cost of electricity in Montreal: 8c/kWh

Boston: 47c/kWh

New York: 58c/kWh

Source: https://www.hydroquebec.com/data/documents-donnees/pdf/compa...

[pfdietz]

That's New York City, which is more than 3x the cost I pay in Ithaca, NY.

We have a heat pump, btw.