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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
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Subject: Re: kitchen appliances
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Date: Mon, 20-May-85 12:16:32 EDT
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> Gee, I've had both, and I prefer GAS.  It's not so hard to get it out
> here, but in Denver they looked at me real funny when I asked for it.
> Cook with FIRE?  That went out in the stone age.  My parents new house
> (which the builder piped and wired for either gas or electric) has electric
> ovens but a gas cook top.

The usual reason for installing electric instead of gas appliances is
probably not that the consumer prefers it, just that a gas cook-top is
darned hard to use in an all-electric home.  In many areas (including
the Phoenix area where I live), natural gas connections have not been
allowed under residential construction permits for the last couple of
decades.  You have to live in the slums to find a house old enough to
have natural gas.  (I think that they recently started permitting new
gas connections).
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Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{ihnp4,seismo,decvax}!noao!terak!doug
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