Around here, higher electric rates already made electric heat unattractive to the masses back in the early 1990’s, at least for new construction anyway. I might add a piece here and there for a bath remodel or small addition, but that is just about it.
There seemed to be a brief resurgence in interest about two years ago when oil and gas prices began climbing almost daily and it looked like they were going to stay high, but that seems to have passed, for the time being anyway. But with the storm that’s happening in the Gulf right now, along with the offshore drilling moratorium, all bets are off as to what will happen later this year.
