Comment by ZeroGravitas
5 hours ago
People can live without gas pipes. One of the big tasks at the moment is planning to stop people building new gas pipes that won't be used enough to justify the price and how to phase out the existing gas pipes so the pricing doesn't enter a "death spiral" as people start leaving the network, leaving the government to bail it out.
I’m all for burning less gas, it’s too important a resource to simply burn for heat.
But we need to build the nuclear reactors first.
In the mean time, no: people can’t just freeze in the dark.
Heat pump exists. I’d rather burn gas in the (mostly existing) gas plants than put more gas pipes into the ground.