Replace gas with electric??????
Here the vast majority of cooking and heating in urban/suburban areas is done with gas, rural areas are mostly on electric cooking and wood or oil heating. And friends of gas ranges would rather have their hands chopped of than changing to electric. Furthermore for electric ranges you need 3ph service which is simply more expensive than a 1ph one. And gas is _much_ cheaper than electricity here. Typical equipment in an old flat is the following: gas range (3 burners + oven, usually not older than 30 years, most older ones were thrown out during change from coal to natural gas 1970-78, could not be converted), 5l oversink gas boiler in the kitchen, 10l gas boiler in the bathroom, some gas heaters depending on the size of the appartment. Rehabs usually put a central heating boiler in place of the old 10l bathrrom one and replace the gas heaters, but may leave the 5l boiler in the kitchen if there's a longer distance between kitchen and bathroom (in our case +10m)). Many old flats are still on wood heaters (classmate of mine heats appartment with 2 wood heaters for example)
Some people even put up large propane tanks in rural areas for heating and cooking because they prefer it)
