it gets down to 65 degrees, it's time to fire that sucker up).

That what I keep my heat at in the winter. Would be lower but my wife and daughters complained at 63.

i went for a walk the other morning. it was 68 degrees. people were wearing jackets AND GLOVES!

My motorcycle today. It was 50 out. Just a motorcycle jacket with no insulation, jeans and perforated leather gloves. Lovely fall ride... I guess it is what you are acclimatized to.

As such I would kinda doubt that there's a lot of homes outfitted with it in Florida.

We USE gas in lots of places, but it's a lot more commonly used for stoves and hot water heaters and fake fireplaces.

Real old houses I think are more likely to have gas heat. LIke if built from the 1920-1960's.

All other methods make up the other half.

I've only had it in like 1/15 places I've lived in my life, and haven't known of many other people that had it ... maybe regional.

but there are two types of household gas for heating - natural gas delivered through pipes from a centralized point sort of like city water or electricity, and individual storage tanks of propane delivered by truck on a schedule.

Underground propane tank. Gas heat, hot water and stove.

Hardly ever used heat.

the option for both new homes we bought in the last 30 years. We chose electric, and I don't remember why.

So it's a multi function unit.

Up here in new england, the lions share of heat is via heating oil. There is a sizeable natural gas base though. There was a drive many years back to convert people because gas was cheaper and relatively plentiful. Oil gets very pricey and supplies can be disrupted.

This was in Hollywood between Ft laud and Miami.. I got a rebate from the gov't when I switched over.. The bill was about $15 per month.. One person cooking a lot and never taking showers. If I used the heat it was for about one week in Jan maybe Feb...
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Classic Florida

of Florida make underground pipework more problematic, particularly near the coast.
The more expensive it is to install distribution systems, the less likely they'd be offered.
I only recollect seeing electric heat in my visits to western and central Florida.

in Panama City has all electric.

I'm all gas here in Delaware (heat, dryer--although I use the sun mainly, hot water, cooking) and I helped renovate an old family home that we converted from oil to natural gas (for everything). The sun makes most of my electricity (solar panels on the roof). If the utility didn't have natural gas here, I would maybe use just electricity (and get more solar panels). Propane is very expensive.

On a antique shopping trip! My only MAGA family member, my sister, has a lake house there too.

A MAGA-sister magnet

I haven't been down there in a few years. Her house got pretty damaged by the hurricane that wiped out Mexico Beach... I forget which one it was.

It wiped out my sisters lake house too but they have rebuilt it. (I am beginning to wonder if we are talking about the same sister, you think we may be kin?)

I went with gas heat, oven, clothes dryer and water heater. I replaced the central heating system this past Spring so it will be my first Winter on a heat pump with strip backup. Over the years, I have replaced all of the appliances, except for the oven with electric. I bought a new gas range/oven this year because I far prefer cooking with gas. A good reason in Florida for having gas to cook with is when the hurricane knocks your power out for two weeks, you can still cook and heat water to bathe with.

Gas, especially natural gas, (as opposed to propane) is a solid choice for heating.

...we turn off the air conditioning a few days a year....

That's if I even had any heat at all. You really don't use it much. Maybe a few nights in January and February you turn it on. The first time you need to use it, you get that burnt dust smell. It goes away fast though. When I lived in Boston we had gas heat. Some places had oil. Some houses in Florida could have gas heat as there are some neighborhoods with gas stoves and water heaters. I've never had gas heat down here though. It's so damn hot for most of the year that I enjoy a good cold snap every now and then. I love getting to open the windows and air out the house.